Perhaps this will offend some, but I see a similarity between the blind worship of AGW and some of the old hell-and-brimstone preaching. Both use the prospect of dramatic future catastrophes to whip up their adherents.
Yes.
Yeah but the old preaching does not need people to believe so that they can continue to sale their products and keep their funding.
As long a Global Warming™ remains a multi-billion$$$$ cash cow, it will remain real. Those who are invested in “green” companies that market and sale green products and those whose livelihood depends on govm’t funding would be complete idiots to deny GW or downplay the hype. That would be like shooting your cash cow in the head.
It would be like cities around Loch Ness claiming “the monster is not real, you can all go home now”.
Instead, idiots believe it and pay $12 for the t-shirt, $6 for the Loch Ness burger, $8 for the Loch Ness action figure, $30 for the Loch Ness charter boat tour...etc....
Oh, I don’t know, global warming religionists are the kind who think that the series “A World Without People” should have a laugh track.
They are in fact religious fanatics. And we know what RF’s think of any who do not share their beliefs. Some of them are prepared to act upon that. Others already have.
Similarities between major monotheist religions and AGW:
* demands for sacrifices in this life for the greater good, tithes for religions, carbon credits and minimalist lifestyle for AGW
* people are inherently bad; original sin for Christianity, humans are toxic/pollution/disease for AGW. The difference is that Christianity, Islam and Judaism believe humans can be redeemed through faith or works, whereas environmentalism
* all have a deity - for AGW, they just worship mother Earth without admitting that they have a deity.
* all have penance for sins - confession or good works or being saved by Christians, paying carbon taxes or giving to liberal charities by AGW
* hell - for monotheists, in the next life, for AGW, this world in our lifetimes if we don’t adhere to their strict restrictions
* dietary rules - for AGW, local foods and vegetarian/vegan are superior, no GMO allowed. For Jews and Muslims, no pork. For Christians, not really unless you are part of a sect that says no alcohol or follows Kosher rules.
* apocalypse / end times - end of physical Earth for AGW with ramped up notions of human extinction and death of all life on Earth unless their strictest strictures are followed; for Judeo-Christians, life is as lousy as normal until more people become religious and follow the 10 commandments until/unless a messiah shows up.
AGW / environmentalism is a pagan religion. The irony is that they blast conservative/literal Christians and Jews for their faith while failing to recognize their own. They even have their formal orthodoxies on everything from a budding caste system to political views to proper clothing (no leather), but refuse to admit it is such.
When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.