And Al Gore Is Moses
Posted by papundits on 07/10/2009
By Andrew Bolt
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Elizabeth Farrelly sees good in making a faith out of global warming:
Titling his talk The Theology of Climate Change, (Ian Plimer) dismissed the global climate movement as “an urban fundamentalist atheistic religion” shaped to plug the hole left by “failed Western socialism and failed Western Christianity”. It’s true that climate change has taken on a deistic tinge. Phillip Adams praised John O’Brien’s recent book, Opportunities Beyond Carbon, thus: “Verily I say unto you: this is a new New Testament, containing hope of a planetary resurrection … should be set to music and sung aloud by all policy-makers.” Adams was mildly tongue-in-cheek, of course. But only mildly. Tony Blair spoke for the masses when he positioned climate change as the moral issue of our time. And what’s wrong with that? Religion has always swayed behaviour by giving moral heft to certain rules of practical living, from not eating shellfish to not coveting your neighbour’s wife.
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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