Who is Freeman Dyson?
He has a bio and a wikipedia page, but he’s probably best known as the scientist behind some of science fiction’s favorite ideas, most famously the Dyson Sphere (an artificial habitat completely surrounding a star). Politically, he supports international cooperation over nationalism, supports nuclear disarmament, and is a self-described environmentalist who believes fossil fuels are the driving force behind global warming. He resembles the stereotype of the conservative in only two ways: he is Christian (non-denominational), and he calls environmentalism a secular religion. Clearly it’s not just political partisanship or uninformed rhetoric that calls environmentalism a religion.
