Ecology, new religion . I do not say it even though one of the gang points out there. Jérôme Fourquet has written it: "Maybe we are about to attend the emergence of a new matrix, secular and no longer religious. Of course, there are major differences, ecology is based on scientific data and not on faith. But environmentalism works on the sociological and cultural level as the Catholic matrix once was.There are similarities in the terms and references: sanctuaries of biodiversity, farmers who convert to the bio, apocalyptic announcements (...) The end of the world, for environmentalists as for Christians, is caused by the guilt of men, who must atone for their faults. "

Fourquet is not a curve. But a political scientist who directs the opinion department of IFOP , a prestigious French polling institute. Author of The French archipelago , expert in electoral geography, student of identity issues. He collaborates with Le Figaro (from where the previous and following quotes are taken) and publishes with the Jean-Jaurès Foundation , close to the Socialist Party.

His reflection concluded as follows: "Ecology, as in the past, Catholicism, has a concrete influence on people's lives, much more than other political accounts. It is typical of the religious to impose an orthopedic on believers, that is to say, the conformity between their faith and its daily behavior Here is the ABC of scouts: every day you have to select waste, save energy ... Unlike those observed in communist cultures or in the republican and secular matrix, environmentalism ( like the great religions) dictates very specific food precepts: the ecologist makes Lent every day because he must avoid numerous foods such as palm oil, fruit that is not seasonal etc. ".

Tracking this interpretation for this walk I have found other clues that underpin green messianism. The sociologist Jean Pierre Le Goff spoke a few days ago of "the emblematic figure of Greta Thunberg who gives lessons to the world. Sentimentality and victimization reach the top when this young woman breaks into tears in the gallery, messenger with a dark look on the world, bearer of a binary vision -white or black- ".

In case Greta's visions, to which Fourquet compares with Joan of Arc, are imposed, in the gang we are going to do conscientious examination, ecological of course. I declare myself a sinner: I have an old diesel and I like avocados.

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