Damn. Objective scientific studies? Trying multiple plans to gauge how each works? Depoliticizing environmental issues? Admitting that "we" don't already know everything? Acknowledging that we are a part of nature and that it is far stronger than it's portrayed? Sounds right to me. The question is how to convince the "followers". If he's right and the followers have a personality that requires this type of rigid, unquestioning belief in a cause, then a new cause will have to be created.