In one interview Peterson dismisses environmentalism as ‘just another ideology’, marking him as someone occasionally unable to see past ideological accretions to a profound issue, into the issue’s core, as well as being someone whose embattled reaction to ideology can be more over-simplified and dangerous than the ideology itself. Environmentalism does have some religious distortions in its roots, which need weeding out. And since its fears are so deep, it has accumulated some hysteria. But let’s bear in mind that these fears are, to a significant extent, grounded in the detailed, voluminous findings of science. Whereas Peterson’s fears about political correctness seem to be grounded in his youthful reading of Solzhenitsyn and Nietzsche while being wracked by depression and apocalyptic nightmares.