July 2, 2007
Australia's Cardinal George Pell views environmental issues like climate change as a pagan substitute for people who lack God in their lives. As Pell said in 2006:
'Some of the hysteric and extreme claims about global warming are also a symptom of pagan emptiness, of Western fear when confronted by the immense and basically uncontrollable forces of nature . . . In the past pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.'
The quote comes from Guy Pearse's online extract from his recent High and Dry text on the politics of climate change.
Pell's view denies the environmental problem. Hence the consensus between the neoliberals and the religious right.
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