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A London judge said yes, ruling this week that environmentalism should carry the same legal weight as religion under Britain's employment laws.
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by Animal
If you'd READ instead of whine, you'd have more credibility.
The article clearly speaks for itself:
A London judge said yes, ruling this week that environmentalism should carry the same legal weight as religion under Britain's employment laws.
My political, environmental or philosophical views are not for you to assume.
I am a farmer, naturalist and environmentalist since before you were born.
I happen to believe that man is more able ( and more economically able) to shape his local environment than influence global climate.
Since we (as men) have limited resources, even when pooled into a government treasury, we are wiser to invest them where we realize the most and best results.
Nothing to do with liberal or conservative thought, really, as well all share them same resources, collective abilites and "locale" (to a certain degree).
lol, the UK is not a secular state.
Though each country that makes up the UK has a long tradition of Christianity that pre-dates the UK itself, in practice all have relatively low levels of religious observance and today are secular societies.
The UK granted legal protection to "philosophical beliefs" because, being a secular state, they could not come out and specifically advocate for or against any religion. They had already adopted in effect the "Human Rights Act" and other EU anti-harassment restrictions on upsetting behavior.
You can certainly say that the judge has treated this dude's environmentalism like a religion, but he at no point suggested it was a religion. To suggest otherwise is just pure sophistry.
The concept that human beings are capable of causing the planet to overheat or lose its ozone seems about as ridiculous as blaming the Magdalenian paintings for the last ice age.
There is a notion that our emissions are causing the temperature of the planet to go up, even though the temperature is not going up.
Even if the temperature were going up, we would be foolish to think we caused it. We could just as reasonably blame it on cows.
In the nineteenth century the temperature went down. In this century it's gone up only about half a degree. The trend over the last two centuries is down. Down is not warmer. So if you like to worry, worry that we might be moving into a new ice age. We could be.
We accept the proclamations of scientists in their lab coats with the same faith once reserved for priests.
Much as I'm sure you enjoy your ability to respond to substance with sarcasm, salted with the same tired graphics lifted without attribution as if they were icons, your replies serve only to confirm your "unshakeable faith" in AGW statism, rather than any ability to reply with substantive grasp of issue and consequences.
The OP is about your government's granting of a status equal to religion to "environmentalism" generally, and AGW specifically.
Of course your ever-present icons are precisly the equivalent of the symbols and statues of more traditional religions. The mantra of "projections" and reliance upon "modelling" reveal the same clinging comfort of chants and spells of other "faiths."
It appears that your courts have only proven what others, Cridhton and Mullis among them, have seen coming for quite some time.
A brief search revealed that the high court's "revelation" has been a long time coming.
Among the many dozens who've seen the derailing of critical thought by elitist snobbery and self-serving statism are a few who have earned the right to comment and consideration (neither of which you will respect):
Environmentalism given same weight as religion in British employment laws
www.economist.com...
Freeman Dyson – Environmentalism: The New Secular Religion
www.uncommondescent.com...
Environmentalism: The Religion for an Eco-theocratic Superstate?
www.conspiracyarchive.com...
Environmentalism: a new religion
www.guardian.co.uk...
Vaclav Klaus: “Environmentalism as Religion”
www.cato.org...
I expect your urge to jeer instead of read is irresistible, but maybe others will appreciate the opportunity to see what others think.
The first temp graph is created from woodfortrees.org which allows a user to produce up to date figures from the major data sets. The other two are from the IPCC report, IIRC.