true peers – heh, no, I wasn’t making ecological prophecies but ‘predictions’ about the future of modern Islamic societies – based on the independent variables of: population size, economic capacity to support this population, urban/rural locations, global networking.
As for religion, all societies have developed religion, understanding religion as a means for explaining the metaphysical, i.e., the non-physical continuity of life. This does not mean developing a monotheism (one god) or even polytheism (many gods); you can get by with spirits and non-physical spirits and forces. But, the fact that life is continuous in the collective and yet finite in the individual singularity – every people have to explain this.
Religion can also be used to explain the reality of chance, both good and bad luck so to speak.
As for your comments about AGW as a transcendental sign, with its meanings never fully articulated – heh- that’s pure Platonism with its Ideal Form and inadequate material versions of this Form. I adamantly reject Platonism; I’m an Aristotelian; there is no Ideal Form separate from matter/mass.
