Outside the Beltway: Sacridelicious in San Francisco

Conn Carroll / April 26, 2010

Addressing The Question of Global Warming, physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson recently wrote in The New York Review of Books:

There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible. … Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.

As if trying to prove Dyson’s point, the Associated Press reported last week:

First, it was a ban on plastic grocery bags, and then on mixing recycling with compost. Now the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is asking residents to go without meat on Mondays. (more…)