The Religion of Climatism - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)

The Religion of Climatism - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF):

• A new faith emerges

"Greta Thunberg, the teenager from Stockholm, is the prophet of a new religion sweeping the West. Call it Climatism. 
Like any religion worthy of the name, it comes with its own catechism (what to believe) and eschatology (how the world will end). 
Thunberg’s bible is the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which gives us 12 years to save civilization as we know it.

We have prayed to the false gods of fossil-fired growth, runs Thunberg’s indictment. 
Guilty are the adults who have “lied to us” and given us “false hope.” 
But her children’s crusade—no-school “Fridays for Future”—will show the path to redemption.

And so, the youngsters did. 
...Of course, Greta Thunberg did not come out of nowhere. 
...Why did she succeed so quickly, virtually in a space of months? 
...Greta has a flawless PR machine running in the background at all times.

Environmentalism is not a new thing under the sun. 
It has a long tradition going back to the American Sierra Club, founded in 1892 for purposes both secular and wholesome. 
Among the club’s feats are wondrous national parks such as Yosemite and Yellowstone. 
But I first noticed the creedal nature of the movement 12 years ago in California. 
In Napa Valley, the Gaia Hotel had ditched the Gideon Bible in favor of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

...For the believers, the debate is closed, and exhortation has segued into excommunication..."
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