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Carl Olson follows up his article which I posted last night ( see this blog ) with some observations by Roger Kimball of Pajamas Media . Quick: what is the fastest growing religious movement in the United States? No, not Islam, but the Church of Environmentalism . It is a low church, adamantly non-ecumenical, but aggressively proselytizing. More than a decade ago, the philosopher Harvey Mansfield observed that “Environmentalism is school prayers for liberals.” How right he was. But I wonder whether even so astute an observer as Professor Mansfield foresaw just how widespread, and how passionate (as in Yeats’s “the best lack all conviction, the worse are full of passionate intensity”), the Church of Environmentalism would be in the early 21st Century. Green be to you ! You've got to read the rest...

This was posted several days ago by Carl Olson and I meant to be sure I placed the link on this blog . The question is answered in a summary by Freeman Dyson who reviews several recent books on global warming: "Freeman Dyson , who is a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (2000), reviews a couple of books on global warming for the June 12, 2008, issue of The New York Review of Books (ht: CF). What is most interesting, at least to me, are his concluding remarks: All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific. There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is