Quietly practicing my “religion”
Posted on | November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
I (obviously) haven’t had a lot to say lately about green design, mainly because I’ve been working hard at my new job, trying to get acquainted with projects and staying on top of current news in the energy efficiency and green building markets. There have been a couple of interesting things going on, but none quite as fantastic as the Solar Decathlon, which is why I haven’t taken the time to write much.
I do want to point out this recent article in the Telegraph out of Britain. It struck me because the executive in question has won the right to sue his employer because he believes he was unfairly dismissed for his “green views”, meaning, they might be treated as a religion. Regardless of the legal implications of the case in the U.K., I think this is a really interesting way to approach the practice of green living. Some of my best friends have told me that my strong convictions about treading lightly on the earth are like my “religion”, and this didn’t offend me. This case does strike me as peculiar, however, since it poses lifestyle choices as being based on a “belief” in global warming, rather than the fact that it IS happening. However, the population of the United States believes that global warming only merits a priority of 4.71 on a scale of 1 to 10. So perhaps our population must rely on global warming as a “belief” to accept it more widely in the public sphere.
This, of course, requires us to accept that scientific fact is optional. And, since I think the notion that dinosaurs roamed the Earth a mere 6,000 years ago is ludicrous to the point of hilarity, I’m going to have to stop just short of calling what I believe – that is, facts – a “faith”.
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November 12th, 2009 @ 6:07 am
When an assumption becomes strong enough, it perhaps turns into a belief. Once it becomes a belief, it can probably be compared to ones religious beliefs which start affecting the way a persons lives his or her life. At Climatarians, we run a directory which lists a wide variety of websites that deal with the environmental problem.
May 24th, 2010 @ 9:30 am
In reality, no single religion could guarantee us a place in Heaven. In the end, what matters is how we a treat other people.-’*