by Paul Taylor

Created on: January 15, 2009

Green is the New God

Environmentalism has become a secular proxy religion that is growing faster than any of the world's traditional beliefs. The recent spread of the Muslim, Pentecostal and Mormon religions has been subsumed by the theories, mythologies and mysticism of today's environmental movement. Sadly, the productive scientific motives and technologies that solve environmental problems have been bypassed and replaced by perverse political dogma and fear mongering propaganda. The green movement began in prospering 20th-Century democracies such as the U.S. and Western Europe; because their affluence absorbed the costs of environmental controls - today about 5% of U.S. GDP. The environmental movement grew to become the largest, most densely organized public cause in human history. Today the movement increasingly mimics religion in its identification of humans as sinners against nature, its calls for personal redemption via lifestyle changes, its claims that environmental issues are now moral issues, and, with the predicted global warming apocalypse, it has its biblically-proportioned Armageddon. As with other religions, environmentalism also has its false prophets, and its extremist followers in the form of animal rights cults and eco-terrorist activists.

The religion of environmentalism has a simple, godless good-versus-evil orthodoxy: nature does good, man does bad. This basic belief enables anti-capitalist, internationalist, and global-socialist political operatives. The faithful congregations of environmentalism are found under the roofs of the United Nations, the European Union, the global Green Party, the Democrat Party in America, and the over four thousand proselytizing nonprofit eco-groups. These organizations are the dogmatists for the eco-religious - environmentalism is their de facto established religion. Further, these are the institutions from which environmentalism's dogma and false prophets exploit political opportunity. Eco-activist's claim moral authority in requiring your adherence to the cause of environmentalism. Your personal commitment and sacrifice for their fanciful moral imperatives such as global sustainability, smart ______ (you fill in the blank), carbon footprinting and environmental justice provide your path to environmental enlightenment, purity and ultimate redemption. Many of these feel-good goals have become common policy language in local, state and national environmental regulations. These policy goals are fed wholesale

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