[MD] Enviornmentalism as Religion

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[John]
Well even as a nature-worshipping, tree-hugging, pantheist, I a sorta agree
with Platt's point.

[Arlo
What? That there are religions that worship nature? Ah duh. What kind of
miracle breakthrough was THAT? But this is just an attempt to smear
anyone/everyone who waxes the slightest bit towards concern for our environment
as some religious zealot (interfering with God's Capitalism!).

[John]
I think a lot of what passes as environmentalism is actually the desire of
SOMish society to ameliorate its worst effects so that it can keep on rolling.

[Arlo]
No doubt that many responses to SOM effects of production/consumption are,
themselves, SOM-based. Pirsig touched on this in ZMM when he talked about
"tearing down a factory" without changing the mindset (will simply reproduce
another factory).