by Tom Harris, America Outloud:

In his 2003 speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, award-winning author Dr. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, etc.) explained why modern environmentalism has become an extremist cult religion. He said:

“…environmentalism is, in fact, a perfect 21st-century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. 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.

“… Increasingly, it seems facts aren’t necessary because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It’s about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.”