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No worries, the "green religion" is non-sequitur, so there's nothing to get, which is what I'm exposing. If it can be hammered into something useful and robust, then I'll leave it be.
If only the worst thing I've done to people was imperceptibly increase the outdoor thermostat, I'd make Mother Teresa look like a marauding sociopath by comparison. Unfortunately humans intentionally harming humans is the biggest cause of unnecessary suffering in the world, and I've played my part.
The error in thinking, and the difference between "believers"/"deniers" and reasonable people is binary logic. Those who believe humans can "do no damage" are as wrong as those who believe they do existential damage.
You've correctly pointed out that technology is a double-edged sword, solving immediate problems and creating longer term ones. It's anyone's guess on if technology will be our demise (engineered virus for example), or our salvation (steering an asteroid away from collision for example). It doesn't matter though, because humanity doesn't have an interest in living primitively (though some individuals do). Once an easier or more comfortable way is developed, we don't go back.
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