+ Paul Johnson:
Conservatism, indeed, is so protean that one of its most powerful expressions is now found with the radical left. The noisiest single lobby in the world today is the Climate Change/Global Warming/Green alliance, of which the supposedly liberal President Obama is an enthusiastic member and which has the support of left-wing ideologues all over the world.
This is essentially a reactionary movement, for its aim is to confine and even reverse capitalism, returning to a precapitalist arcadia in which woods and forests expand, the sea is no longer harvested, energy is strictly rationed and controls on human activity, especially wealth and job creation, are universal.
It's no accident that this movement began as "conservation," an old form of resistance to change, and got its first impetus from the publication of Rachel Carson's romantic book The Sea Around Us. This form of conservatism has a new order of priorities, in which "preserving the planet" comes before the interests of mankind.
Indeed, many of its supporters would prefer a pristine world in which Homo sapiens remained primitive or did not exist at all. Their faith, like most forms of political absolutism, is a substitute for genuine religion. In fact it is, in one sense, a crude form of religion--pantheism, the worship of the Earth and all its manifestations.
PS: Já tinha escrito aqui no PC um post sobre os elementos religiosos do ecologismo.
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