Joel Garreau

An article by Joel Garreau, the ASU Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values, “Environmentalism as Religion,” was published in the Summer 2010 issue of The New Atlantis.

“The drift away from organized religion has left a God-sized hole in man that environmentalism may be reshaping itself to fill,” according to the publication’s introduction of Garreau’s article. “The movement now increasingly resembles a religion for the nonreligious, while Christian leaders increasingly preach a gospel in which God is green. Joel Garreau explores this new overlap of the magisteria of science and religion, and its implications for sensible environmental policymaking.”

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Garreau is a student of culture, values and change, and the author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human, a look at the hinge in history at which we have arrived. As director of The Prevail Project, he is building on a Radical Evolution concept that the Prevail Scenario – the humanistic possibility that we can control and direct this future – might be encouraged. The idea is that if the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) can accelerate the technological future into being, perhaps the same can be done for the responses of our societies.