Now how do you feel about new agers claiming the environment issue?

One of the pages I visit regularly is nrc.nl.
NRC is a liberal dutch newspaper, one of Holland's three "intellectual" newspapers, the other two being socialist Volkskrant and leftwing protestant Trouw.

Last weekend NRC published an opinion article about the environment problem. That's not so unusual: the environment is fashionable this year and NRC, although objective & impartial, does have a sense of responsibility. Still the article was unusual for NRC's pages because the author stressed the need for spirituality in tackling environmental issues. Spirituality is not really an NRC thing.

The article rubbed me the wrong way. The author talks about the "dominant world view" of our "age", starting with Newton, as something strictly rational and materialistic. She feels a new age is coming up, in which "searching for your inner God" will be a more common thing. This should also raise environmental awareness.

Because i love the internet and its nice & easy ways to communicate, i couldn't keep myself from typing a comment. It went like this (but in dutch):

"yeah right, newton and his fellow celebrities could think of nothing else but reason and fysical existence. Come on, things like religion and emotion and idealism have always existed, right next to the urge for science and prosperity. You sound like Hegel all over again, this big massive Zeitgeist thinking certainly won't help us."

Then i continued my day, took a shower, had a cup of coffee. Still the subject clung to my mind. I wrote another comment, noticing that 50 other people had done the same thing. My second comment went like this:

"the environment shouldn’t be the exclusive property of a certain world view or belief system. Saving our planet is something we should do together: leftwing and rightwing, sceptics along with new-agers. It doesn’t take meditation to do biological shopping, to drive an efficient car, to sign up for green energy."

And still I hadn’t enough so I wrote a third (and last) one:

"It’s a very good thing this 'momentum' for the environment cause. But Annick de Witt (the article’s author) is trying to jump on the bandwagon to promote her other beloved issue, spirituality. This is no good: those of us that are not into new age will only be alienated from the environmental issues."

But maybe it doesn’t matter, maybe Annick de Witt will just raise awareness among new agers, and other more sceptical people will raise awareness elsewhere. Is it intolerant of me to criticise her point of view like this? Was i short-sighted?