It is decidedly NOT a new religion. It is an offshoot of Pantheism (Gaia, Mother Earth) which pre-dated paganism. That is why some scholars argue that we have gone beyond paganism and are pre-pagan. Gads, even the Greeks worshipped gods instead of omnipresent, pulse-beating, "every atom within a living, breathing earth" as AlGort does.
It is very creepy to me. So is he, for that matter.
Look , they have a whole group of Evangelicals working with them.
Evangelical Environmental Network &
Creation Care Magazine
Global Warming
http://www.creationcare.org/resources/climate/
Including Rick Warren
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/national/08warm.html?ex=1171256400&en=d2c297203fb07bbe&ei=5070
It is very creepy to me. So is he, for that matter.
Even more so to parents of children growing up and being indoctrinated into this mode of thinking by state and national educational institutions. It can be worse at the private level.
Government school, the Grand Secular Inquisitor, is its most influential evangelist; by inoculating children against genuine religious faith, it leaves them hungering to suck up whatever they are fed.