Environmentalism as Religion

[Kahlessa]

Michael Crichton has spoken of those for whom environmentalism is a religion. Here’s something that appeared in Vanity Fair’s Green Issue, May 2007, p. 264
(I can’t give you a link because it is not available online. This is a basic outline.)

Dante’s Inferno: Green Edition
“Abandon Hope, All Environmental Sinners”

Vestibule: The Indifferent
(Those who voted for Bush in 2000)

First Circle: Limbo
(Those who reelected Bush in 2004)

Second Circle: The Lustful
(List of dirtiest power plants)

Third Circle: The Gluttons
(Big oil and big auto)

Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and The Prodigal
(Big agriculture and big mining)

Fifth Circle: The Wrathful
(Big chemical)

Sixth Circle: The Heretic
(Bjorn Lomborg)

Seventh Circle: The Violent
(Big defense, Rumsfeld, Gates)

Eight Circle: The Fraudulent
Panderers and Seducers: Michael Crichton, Rush Limbaugh

Flatterers: George T. Wollfe

Simonists: (list of reelected members of Congress)

Grafters: (list of defeated members of Congress)

Soothsayers (sorcerers and false prophets): Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas

False Counselors: James Connaughton, Richard Lindzen

Sowers of Discord: Robert C. Balling Jr., S. Fred Singer

Counterfeiters and Falsifiers: Philip Coonexy, George Deutsch

Ninth Circle: The Traitors
(Dirk Kempthorne, Gale Norton)

Hell – Satan and His Three Mouths:
(James Inhofe, George W. Bush, Richard Cheney)