Articles Tagged &quot;Green Religion&quot;

PETER FOSTER GREEN RELIGION

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Climatism is more than a belief system by Peter Foster, National Post

Thursday, November 12th 2009, 3:17 PM EST

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A fired official believes climate change is equivalent to a religious belief. Who could disagree?

The case of fired British “sustainability official” Tim Nicholson has attracted much interest. That’s because Mr. Nicholson is pursuing redress from his former employer, home developer Grainger plc, under the UK’s Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations of 2003. He claims he was fired for his convictions about catastrophic man-made climate change.

Horrified commentators on both left and right have suggested that environmentalism will now be established as a religion. Environmentalists are none too keen on this notion, true though it may be, because it undermines their assertion that their case is based on pure science (which is Mr. Nicholson’s position). Business supporters suggest that a victory by Mr. Nicholson will force the cost of quasi-religious green irrationality onto the bottom line.

Source Link: network.nationalpost.com

DOMINIC LAWSON GREEN RELIGION NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

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Non-believers fill the church of green gods by Dominic Lawson from The Sunday Times

Sunday, November 8th 2009, 6:32 AM EST

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‘Al Gore, who art in thy fully offset private jet; Nobel-prized be thy name; thy carbon-free kingdom come; on planet Earth (otherwise known as Gaia) as it should be after Copenhagen; give us this day our daily meat-free diet; and forgive us our emissions, though we don’t forgive any other big fat Americans who emit against us; lead us not into exotic holiday flights; and deliver us from climate denial; for the science is settled. Amen.”

That lacks a certain resonance, I must admit; but now that a British judge has ruled that believers in man-made global warming catastrophe should be protected under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, we should try to come forward with some suitable prayers for this newly identified faith.

Mr Justice Burton, of the High Court, is the man behind the ruling. He found for a “sustainability officer” called Tim Nicholson, who claimed he had been made redundant by the property company Grainger because of his beliefs in imminent man-made climate catastrophe. To be precise, the judge did not say that Nicholson had actually been sacked for that reason; only that he had the right to sue for unfair dismissal under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations.

Source Link: timesonline.co.uk

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN NEWSPAPER ARTICLE GREEN RELIGION

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When the twin religions of 'global warming' and shopping collide...by Richard Littlejohn from the Daily Mail

Friday, November 6th 2009, 4:35 AM EST

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So that's it, then, we're all doomed. The chances of a new deal on 'climate change' at Copenhagen appear to be dead in the water, marooned like an albatross in an oil slick.

Better start laying in supplies of baked beans and bottled water, since environmental armageddon must surely follow.

Gordon Brown told us weeks ago that we had only 50 days to save the planet.

Failure to reach a legally-binding global agreement to cut carbon emissions would mean the end of the world.

By that reckoning, we've got about a fortnight before the Earth turns to molten lava and we're eaten by marauding packs of polar bears, floating into town on what's left of the ice caps.

Source Link: dailymail.co.uk

MELANIE PHILLIPS GREEN RELIGION UPDATED

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The deep green sophistry of 'religious' equivalence by Melanie Philips from UK Spectator

Thursday, November 5th 2009, 5:32 AM EST

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It’s official -- putting plastic bottles into the recycling bin or going on a Greenpeace demo is akin to having a religious experience.

Rupert Dickinson, who was made redundant by a London property company, claimed that it had discriminated against him on account of his subscription to the theory of man-made global warming and other environmental issues which he said constituted a ‘philosophical’ belief.

In any rational universe, he would be sent away with a flea in his ear for trying it on. But this is not such a world. At an Employment Appeal Tribunal Mr Justice Burton ruled that because of his belief in climate change Dickinson was entitled to the same protection against discrimination as someone with religious convictions.

How hilarious is this?! When sceptics like me observe that man-made global warming resembles religious zealotry because it is a dogmatic belief which has nothing to do with actual as opposed to pseudo-science, we are dismissed as anti-science flat-earthers. Yet now Mr Justice Burton has laid down that it is a philosophical ‘belief’ which has the same status as belief in a religion.

Source Link: spectator.co.uk

YOU COULD NOT MAKE IT UP GREEN RELIGION

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You Could Not Make It Up: Belief in man-made climate change as important as religious faith?

Tuesday, November 3rd 2009, 6:29 PM EST

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An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views. But should environmentalism have the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs?

He claimed his beliefs in climate change contributed to his dimissal and has just won the right to take his employers to a tribunal. In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

But should a belief in man-made climate change be considered as important as religious views and could this open the flood gates to other people who feel they have been discrimated against for their "green views"?

Source Link: telegraph.co.uk