We have blogged about the National Association of Scholars’ study Sustaintability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism. In a review of that document, George Will explains the sense in which this particular kind of environmentalism is, in fact, a fundamentalism.
From George Will, ‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses – The Washington Post:
Like many religions’ premises, the sustainability movement’s premises are more assumed than demonstrated. Second, weighing the costs of obedience to sustainability’s commandments is considered unworthy. Third, the sustainability crusade supplies acolytes with a worldview that infuses their lives with purpose and meaning. Fourth, the sustainability movement uses apocalyptic rhetoric to express its eschatology. Fifth, the church of sustainability seeks converts, encourages conformity to orthodoxy and regards rival interpretations of reality as heretical impediments to salvation.
Can you think of other seemingly secular fundamentalisms?
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