Analysis Of Michael Crichton's Environmentalism As Religion

Judeo-Christian beliefs as based on faith, and solely that. These groups and people do not need facts to back up their convictions, and each person will believe that “their way is the right way, [and that] everyone else is wrong,” (Page 6). One of the most commonly known stories from these religions is the story of the Garden of Eden, in which Eve and Adam both partake of the fruit of knowledge and thus for are cast out, bringing evil unto the world. Many believe, that these same connections can be made to our story as a human population as it was with Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were both sinners, and “we are all energy sinners,” (Page 2). Both groups of evildoers are then forced to gain their salvation, in our case, sustainability, or be forced

He begins by making the bold claim that “there never was an Eden,” (Page 2). Our world has never been a perfect paradise where humans lived the perfect lifespan, with no health complications. There was disease, cannibalism, and lots of war, which most often was because of religious contentions. More children died after childbirth than did survive, and millions died because of starvation. This passionate view of the earth “is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature,” (Page 3). What is ever so romantic and blissful as a world that was nothing compared to that of a bible story. Crichton goes even farther to say that humans don’t even want to experience nature in its full glory. Most people just want to have a more simple life, for just a few days. He says that there is no way we could handle it without being annoyed, disgusted, or killed within a short period of time. Even then we would be relying on the main stream worldly products to keep us

And Mr. Crichton theorizes that there are two reasons why we need to go back to environmental science, and leave the religion aspect behind us. First, we need to stick with the cold hard facts of science and we can’t rely on one government political party to solve all of our problems for us, this is an all-for-one type of deal, with no connotations involved. Our second reason he explains is that religions think that they have the answers to everything. But when it comes to environmentalism, we are dealing with discoveries that are still being found to this day, we need to evolve and mesh ourselves in order to accept new ideas and proceed with how to live our lives