The Embrace of Environmentalism Will Be the Doom of Traditional Religion [The Voltage Gate]

Published: October 15, 2007, 1:50 pm

In honor of Blog Action Day... At least that's what our paranoid friend Frank Furedi thinks in a recent essay discussing the rise of environmentalism in major religious institutions. He bitterly denounces the greening of society as a set of new moral principles, a replacement for traditional religious values, and predicts the collapse of these institutions for embracing a more ecofriendly perspective, calling it "eco-spirituality": However, eco-spirituality cannot really compensate for the loss of traditional moral authority. Indeed the very embrace of the environmentalist agenda can only accelerate the decline of institutions that cannot give meaning to the religious doctrines on which they were founded. The shift away from God towards nature inevitably leads to a world where the pronouncements of environmentalist experts trump those of the priesthood. It will be interesting to see what will remain of traditional religion as prophecy and revelation is displaced by computerised

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