Environmentalism as a modern science? No way, says Michael Crichton, who sees the green worldview as "a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths":
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy.
. . . certain human social structures always reappear. They can't be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion...If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form.
. . . There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.
. . . 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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, call your mother.
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