Via Ed Driscoll, Is Environmentalism a Religion?
Novelist Michael Crichton said that environmentalism had all the trappings of a religion: “Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday.” Atwood is filling it out with saints and hymns.
Actually, Al Gore had already beat her to it:
Environmentalism is a religion, and Al Gore is its Prophet:
Al’s Gore’s much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.