There are of course not just political explanations for the environmental frenzy that is currently sweeping the western world. There is, argues Joseph Brean in the National Post a good argument to cast environmentalism as the new religion, complete with hymns, a messiah and an end of days catastrophe. And of course with a propensity to spawn fundamentalist currents.

It’s funny that the article talks about “the sinful guilt of throwing a plastic bottle in the garbage”. For years now that has been an issue which has sparked some debate in the Dorsman household where I, in my zeal to clean-up the kitchen, forget to properly recycle plastic items. Irene has always taken me to task for that sort of 'errant' behaviour and in response the term ‘eco-fascism’ long ago became staple of our daily conversation here.

Thankfully, there are green experts who are able to pierce the absurd dogmatism that we are now forced to accept as both science and the road to our ultimate salvation:

Dr. Orrell is no climate-change denier. He calls himself green. But he understands the unjustified faith that arises from the psychological need to make predictions.

“The track record of any kind of long-distance prediction is really bad, but everyone’s still really interested in it. It’s sort of a way of picturing the future. But we can’t make long-term predictions of the economy, and we can’t make long-term predictions of the climate,” Dr. Orrell said in an interview. After all, he said, scientists cannot even write the equation of a cloud, let alone make a workable model of the climate.

Read the Green Fervour in its entirety and get ready for the next wave of fundamentalism.