Yes indeedy, but the balance of this op-ed in The Wall Street Journal goes much too easy on the fanatics, and is much too accepting of the current climate orthodoxy, paying no attention whatsoever to the outright fraud being committed by politically-motivated anti-capitalists in the scientific community.
St. Greta Spreads the Climate Gospel:
A movement that believes in sin, penance and salvation doesn’t sound very scientific
It’s been noted before that the cause of addressing climate change
has become something like the modern world’s version of a secular
religion. In much of Europe especially, but in sections of American
society too, a kind of climate theology has replaced traditional
Christianity as the ultimate source of authority over human behavior,
comprising both an all-embracing teleology of our existence and a
prescriptive moral code.
The High Church of Environmentalism has acquired many of the
characteristics of its ecclesiastical predecessor. An apocalyptic
eschatology warns that we will all be consumed by fire if we don’t
follow the ordained rules. The notion that it is our sinful nature that
has brought us to mortal peril—from the Original Sin of a
carbon-unleashing industrial revolution to daily transgressions with
plastic bottles and long-haul flights—is as central to its message as it
was to the Catholic Church’s. But repentance is near. A gospel of
redemption emphasizes that salvation lies in reducing our carbon
footprint, with reusable shopping bags and bike-sharing. The secular
authorities preach the virtues of abstinence. Meatless Fridays are no
longer just for Lenten observance. ...
[T]here is something about this near-religious fervor among the
climate change activists—a growing fanaticism—that recalls some of the
more troubling traits of extreme religious cults.
