Actually, when you were posting ecological prophecies (and yes, to my mind they did have a religious quality about them) about the future of Islamic societies at Belmont Club, I tended to agree with much of what you wrote. Which is why I thought it might be worth trying to further the anthropological arguments which underpin your predictions. No such luck!
Anyway, what is your understanding of a religion, of religion’s emergence, form, and purpose in the worldly world? As for the histories that AGW can give us, I’d say the options are wide open. But for starters you can listen to any green bemoan the evolution and shared failures of human society(ies) to this point. Of course whether one favours some return to a more primitive “order” and hence drastically-reduced human population and an end to globalization, or salvation through some high-tech Utopia, the green narrative or “reason” tells the story of the transcendent sign’s (“AGW”) emergence, while never being able to fully exhaust the meanings attending the sign’s emergence, leaving the sundry origins (in science and political economy) of that sign’s emergence as something of a religious and historical mystery, a question for further scientific exploration and thinking about all the unreformed humans who didn’t get it quickly or who still don’t get it yet.
