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In the early nineties, two French intellectuals gave scientific support to the first manifestations of ecophobia. Thirty years on, even though climate emergency is lending relevance to previsions once deemed alarmist, the same discourse is still gaining traction, even becoming more radical. Now as then, critics of environmental thinking claim to be the only ones speaking in the name of science, dismissing their opponents as ideologues. These self-proclaimed supporters of the Enlightenment, quick to denounce as ideologically blinkered those who do not join in their acclaim of the techno-capitalistic model, detest the precautionary principle and embrace a gospel of risk-taking. We aim to demonstrate that not only is the discourse of those guardians of Reason deeply ideological, but that it hardly renews itself, recycling threadbare nostrums, and more often than not emanating from self-interested figures who have occasional links with business and the politicians and financiers who support it.