They haven't lost friends or family yet. Give it time. This has barely begun.
Yeah it's a question of how much anger builds up and how it can be translated into political will. I'm not optimistic to be honest cos of the things we were talking about in the Trump thread.
Saw that just now with perfect timing.Easyjet will go ahead with a £174m dividend, including £60m which will go to its founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, payout to shareholders despite appealing for taxpayer support.
I know what you mean but I would also like to know what distinguishes a specifically religious fervour from any other sort of fervour.
Are the kinds of the behaviour linked to climate change activists specifically religious? Is the willingness to martyr oneself for a cause specifically religious for instance? My instinct is to say no, it's not.
compared to 1300s Europe, it is absolutely a far more mundane time
mundane may not be the best word
what I mean is the Black Death occurred at a time that had no experience with a scientific mindset
i.e. there was no way to explain what was happening other than God's wrath or judgment or whatever
I'm not saying that we live in a time of uniform or even widespread individual rationality
but we know what a virus is and how it works
that doesn't preclude God etc as an ultimate cause for believers, but it's a massive buffer
the problem with a new religion or 'way' is that we're all too individually segregated now. there is almost no true 'us' anymore in the developed world. there will be endless fighting over tiny details on what it should be about etc. and it's exactly that lack of a collective that makes it so easy to manipulate people en masse and sucker so many people into religions and sects because i think we innately need to belong. if you can tend the strings of the consensus, you're pretty much god
not all fervor is religious, also
environmentalism largely lacks the spiritual/supernatural element of religion. even when it does exist, it's not intrinsic.
Joan of Arc claimed to have been inspired by visions of angels. Greta Thunberg obviously isn't. it's a bad comparison.
I should've been more clear maybe, I don't mean no new sects will arise. they very well may.
new sects are always arising. they will as long as people seek answers to unanswerable questions, so likely for as long as human existence is a thing.
I just don't think there will be - barring a massive jump in death toll - a large swell of religious faith/zeal, or anything like the flagellants.
Specific behaviours are less important than the relationship they have with others. So what I mean is that it's not A or B that are important, it's the A:B relationship. The : is the important thing.