sant, to have at our disposal increased learning, culture, and leisure (1990, p. 208).
Like many other conservatives, Robertson sees environmental concern as a hindrance to progress. He writes that it may "prove a front for massive new governmental spending and intrusion into our lives" (1990, p. 209).
However, Robertson has no argument with the need for the support that organized religion offers to the 21st-century citizen. Mircea Eliade suggests, "The existence of God [forces] itself far more urgently upon modern man . . . than upon the man of the archaic and traditional cultures" (1954, p. 161), and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all present powerful approaches to finding meaning in life in the modern world. Futurists have not often recognized that this need exists. Andrew M. Greeley points out, "There is very little in the current literature of the future about religion, mostly because the futurists assume that religion either will not play much part in the future, or is irrelevant to human behavior" (1969, pp. 4-5). Religion, however, is hardly
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