Environmentalism as religion - Can you help me with research?

Question

This will be an extensive study. One area I'd like some input is this:

Environmentalism, as a religion, has its patron saints. Here are some:

Rachel Carlson
Paul Ehrlich
Al Gore
Sting
Meryl Streep

to name but a few. I've compiled a more extensive list, but in case of any I missed, who could you add to this list? Thanks

Love Jack

Mikeinportc - Yes, I have Thoreau, the blowhard. Actually, the Aboriginals, Native Americans, Druids, etc, go under a separate heading in environmental religion: "Angels." (Along with dolphins, whales, and the northern spotted owl.)

Avail - but environmentalism clearly resembles a religion - it has its dogmas, commandments, saints, demons, angels, heretics, holy relics, holy sites, holy writings, etc

Answer 1

big difference between environmentalism and religion.
You can see the destruction pollution does to the environment. It can be seen, and proven scientifically. That pretty much excludes it from being a religion.
but i guess you would have to study a religion to understand that fact.

Answer 2

The Druids ?
Thought that's where you were heading Rush, ...er ...Jack. So.... Australian Aboriginals?

Along the lines of your examples, you have to go back a lot further . : John Muir , Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold ( "Sand County Almanac " is a classic , esp essay "Thinking Like a Mountain" ) My favorite line of his ( not sure where from) " The art of successful tinkering, is to save all the parts . " ;D If you only have time for one , go with Leopold . Probably more important, in actual effect , than all the rest put together.

ps Ignore any spotted owl bs . The real deal : as of '92 , when it got more notice, because of Bush campandering (Le plus sa change,....... ;D)

1) Japan didn't allow importation of finished lumber, just raw logs . So,.... we gave out >$100M in export subsidies, to make it feasible for the lumber compans to ship the logs, & the mill jobs that go with them , to Japan . Spotted owls had nothing to do with it . Suspect the situation is ~ same now, only the $ will be different .
2) The endangered species act only applies to federal land & federal money . On private land you can cut away . ( You mostly can't, because 95+% of the old-growth is gone )
3) Congress has written the laws such that any timber sale on federal land , is a net loss , $-wise .++++ The lumber is sold dirt cheap . The same thing, on private land , if you can find it, will cost a LOT more , plus the costs of road-buillding & cleanup. On federal land , WE pay those costs. So any whining about spotted owls , is just cover for somebody who was denied an opportunity to feed at the public trough. Or they have fed , but want more (i.e "All")