Dean Esmay links to a speech by Michael Crichton on the environment, which for anyone concerned about the environment yet skeptical about environmentalism is a must-read. The essence of his argument is that it is time for environmentalists to abandon their religious beliefs and start acting based on facts, on science. While I strongly agree with him it should be noted that this is a near impossibility for it means that the environmental movement would have to question the core of the agenda it has been advocating for over 30 years. That's not going to happen and we will likely see an environmental nucleus that is ever more becoming radicalized and fundamentalist in its beliefs, passing the cost of its delirious ideas on to society at large. After seven years in Hong Kong I had come to believe environmentalists, a few years on Canada’s West Coast made me realize that we need to use common sense, feed the Kyoto Protocol through the shredder and listen to people like Crichton.