We must decide daily whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will benefit us, whether the challenges we're told exist are truly real challenges or non-challenges. We all have a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us. Our struggle to determine what is true, is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are in fact genuine, and which are false because they are either handed down or sold to us by our own hopes and fears. Today in our society environmentalism is much like religion and the green movement now exhibits the same psychology of compliance as religion. Environmentalism can be claimed as a religion because of the faith-based actions, dedication through devotion, and the established cultural practices. …show more content…
Faith-based beliefs can be defined as a "creation [of] stories and ideas of original sin" (Rubin 399). When there is a creation of stories an individual must have faith to believe that the story is true. Then the individual will believe in that story and then they can spread the story around to other individuals. Faith is detrimental in religion because it takes faith to believe in a God; it takes faith to believe what God says is right and true; it takes faith to believe in climate change; it takes faith to believe in global warming. A scientist at one point must believe in something that cannot be tested. “The two beliefs co-exist based on faith, not reason” (Rubin 400). There are many things that we as humans are unable to prove, which also means that not everything needs to be proven, faith alone is