Michael Crichton: Is Environmentalism A Religion?

By Dr. Jay Lehr~

As more and more in society have drifted away from a belief in God the void needs to be filled for most human beings. The environment, Crichton said, has filled the void for many. Conventional Judeo-Christian religion began with a perfect world called Eden. Today’s environmentalist sees sustainability as the salvation in the church of the environment, attempting to return to a fictional world of past perfection.

Michael Crichton, well known for his books Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, movies of those books and others and the award winning TV series ER, received his medical degree from Harvard but never practiced. Instead he wrote and directed movies and TV full time. He died of cancer in 2008.

He had a number if serious environmental concerns which lead him to write STATE FEAR a novel that addressed the realities of concerns about Global Warming. In September of…