Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.