Ardor Day: Environmentalism has become a religion

Opinion Journal ^ | 05/07/2002 | THOMAS J. BRAY

[Pokey78]

Rationally, it's hard to find reasons for the Senate to reject oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as it did recently.

The drilling would have affected only a tiny portion of the huge refuge; caribou herds flourish in the North Slope oil patch and could be expected to do the same in ANWR; the danger of oil spillage is nil with modern technology; the local native tribe favored it; the addition of ANWR reserves to the national resource bank would not have made American "energy independent" but it would have added significant downward pressure on long-term energy prices.

[Bogey78O]

"Republicans are evil....you like the Earth...You want to save the Earth...."

Subliminable

[My Identity]

So environmentalism should be banned from all state schools, right?

I also thought that creating the Church of the Gay Agenda would be an effective way of getting it banned from schools as well. hehehehehe

[StriperSniper]

But it might also have helped if the administration had offered a more clearheaded and principled alternative to the "pristine wilderness" argument the environmental left advanced in the ANWR debate.

I think the way to handle it would have been to say it is fair to describe ANWR as a "pristine wilderness" but it is equally accurate to descibe it as "a frozen wasteland 9 months of the year and infested with blood-sucking insects the rest".

[madfly]

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[farmfriend]

Thanks for the ping. BTTT.

[thirst4truth]

My kids science teacher, a young man of about 24, fresh out of college, told me his major is enviornmental science.

Earth worship is definitely a religion. Anyone I have met that wants to "save the earth" has no concept of what will happen to earth when our Lord returns. Read Revelation some time, "the elements will melt with fervent heat", is one of the descriptions. In the end it will be utterly destroyed by its creator and a new heaven and earth will be made to last for eternity.

[cake_crumb]

Thanks for the ping.

[Spell Correctly]

environmental

[cake_crumb]

"Rationally, it's hard to find reasons for the Senate to reject oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as it did recently."

I disagree. Rationally, it's pretty easy to find the reason (singular) that the Senate rejected drilling in ANWR: the left wing wants to get back in control. They don't care about the environment. Their goal is to destroy President Bush as they did his father.

They have no issues upon which to stand, so they've latched onto the left wing's most popular fiction: the Republicans love to destroy the environment.

[cake_crumb]

"Earth worship is definitely a religion."

It sure is. Go to one of those Earth rallies sometime. Scary.

[blackie]

Bump !!

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Environmetal Science for the most part is not a radical field. Alot of it is water treatment systems, run off solutions and the like - not tree hugging. ALthough the discipline does attract those folks.