Heathen Gardener Kvetch time!
Not to sound negative(though I will), but to share an observation, I have spent a significant chunk of free time over the past couple of years watching various you tube videos on sustainability and permaculture gardenining and farming. I have mostly watched American, Canadian, Australian, and British videos. To a lesser extent, occasional Irish, New Zealand, South African and Indian videos. I am most impressed by the British pro-gardening cultural heritage and by Australian leadership in ecological causes, such as battling desertification and species loss.

Now the negative observation: While my own country, the U.S., does have some important representation in the sustainability movement, I am struck by how often the American videos I have watched drop unexpected comments promoting religiosity, either praising God, claiming their horticultural projects would be impossible without God, or, in the case of that "Back to Eden" guy, whats-his-name, actually turning his teaching lessons into a virtual Sunday school lesson. Yeah, I stopped watching him after a few attempts. It is so obnoxious.

I realize there are surely international gardener video personalities with some personal religious faith. But it seems only the U.S., along with some developing nations, that seems to think it a right and duty to proslytize to us Joe-Public viewers.

Living in the American South, I am sure I offend plenty of people merely by objecting to that missionary attitude. It is that arrogance of certainty that presumes religious faith is automatically a positive force, or at worst, benign, which I find so off-putting.

I welcome your thoughts on how you respond to to such magical thinking zealots.