Environmentalism As A (Post-)Modern Religion

Stephen Asma finds striking similarities between “green living” and traditional religion: orthodoxy (recycling, using paper or cloth grocery bags), spiritual practice (reducing one’s carbon footprint), sin (plastic grocery bags, driving an SUV), enemy infidels (oil company execs, anti-regulation politicians), a coming apocalypse (climate change), high priests and prophets (the “Goracle”), and so on.