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The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it — and if you don't, you die.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)