What about radical ecologists and religious fundamentalists?

Question

Can you think of some ideas which radical ecologists and religious fundamentalists would have in common?

Oh my! I wish I could give everyone the "best answer." You guys are great.

Answer 1

Religious fundamentalists respect nature since it is God's handiwork which He called good. They believe humanity is to be good stewards of nature because God has entrusted it to mankind. Obviously, radical ecologists also respect nature, but for different reasons.

Other similarities are that they both tenaciously hold onto their beliefs and are very strident and zealous about what they believe.

Answer 2

The only thing I can think is being humane. Radical ecologist promote preservation or conservation of the earth and its creatures at almost any cost to humans. Religious fundamentalist believe that humans are the caretakers of the earth with dominion over it to prune or cull as man deems necessary but they are commanded to be humane.

Answer 3

The words radical and fundamentalist both imply extremism.

Answer 4

This is shamelessly stolen from a Michael Crichton speech because he uses words much better than I:

There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.
Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday—these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don’t want to talk anybody out of them, as I don’t want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don’t want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can’t talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith.
And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly it seems facts aren’t necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It’s about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.