[xm177e2]

And so it runs. Environmentalism is a religion; religions kill people; therefore environmentalism is evil. This one is called guilty by association.

I disagree. He is merely saying that we need a rational environmentalist movement, not one based on myth and faith. He is merely saying that a movement seeking to influence public policy that isn't based on rationality will likely do more harm than good. The key is that environmentalists want to run public policy, they don't just want to tell parishioners what to do, they want to tell all of us what to do.

[cornelis]

xm177e2, if you make rationality the bottom line, you've a religion as good as any.