The Godless Environmentalist

It's a lot easier to find an atheist who is a climate skeptic, that it is to find a Christian who is a radical environmentalist. Environmentalism has become a religion unto itself.

In 2003, author Michael Crichton gave the best explanation of the way that environmentalism has replaced religion in urban aristocrats.

"I studied anthropology in college, and one of the things I learned was that certain human social structures always reappear. They can't be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion."

Crichton goes to elaborate some of the ways that environmentalism has mapped itself onto the area of our brains that desire meaning for our lives.

"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."

Keep this in mind every time you read about climate change, which our ruling class treats as the great moral crusade of our time. You will see the signals of religious fervor every single time.

Today's confirmation comes from the glamorous world of international super models. Cameron Russell is a twenty-nine-year old woman who prances around in her panties for Victoria's Secret. She has a degree from Columbia University, home of the Marxist educational Brahmin class. And she doesn't want anyone to hate her for being beautiful.

"I am one of the biggest beneficiaries, " she says in her TED Talk, of "the legacy of gender and racial oppression." The world having a preference for fair women does not oppress women of dark skin. It's just a preference! If it bothers you so much, start your own fashion house and hire only Somalis.

Cameron Russell was invited to speak to the Democratic National Convention about climate change. She did an interview with W Magazine about her activism. Her homily repeated the "sustainability" dogma, but also something else interesting. Three times she used the word "abundance."

When people are constantly told they should give up their air conditioner, SUV, or far-off vacation, they don't instantly think, "abundance." They think, "sacrifice," as in, they want me to give up all the things that make my life better.

She has been well-coached. Abundance is an honored theme in the Christian bible. There are hundreds of verses that speak of plenitude. The Twenty-Third Psalm says, "my cup runneth over."

Russell seems unaware that a primary driver of our prosperity is cheap, abundant energy. But there are other reasons as well, such as our degree of economic freedom and low regulations relative to other nations.

"Did you neglect to sequester your carbon, or are you just glad to see me?"

She initially supported Bernie Sanders, because he used "a rhetoric of abundance and inclusivity, about free college and universal health care." Bernie Sanders would eventually turn us into Venezuela, the absolute last nation on earth that I would associate with abundance.