摘要：In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America, economist Robert H. Nelson provides examples of how current �environmental religion� is beset by underlying �theological� confusions. Intent upon restoring the natural world to a state prior to destructive human intervention�whether through trying to reintroduce extinct mega-fauna to the Americas or saving the endangered spotted owl�environmentalists are unwittingly engaged in their own contradictory project of defying Darwinand playing God.
