The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution
The evangelical Christian movement has been at war with environmentalism for decades—but the stakes have never been higher.
By ALLIE CONTI illustrated by LIA KANTROWITZ
Aug 20 2017, 7:15pm
WN: It is truly tragic to see US politics swayed by a minority of religious climate change deniers – out of all proportion to their numbers. On this issue, as so many others, I am embarrassed to be associated with this kind of “Christianity”. Lord, have mercy!
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There are an estimated 35 million biblical literalists in the United States. These people—who may think, for instance, God intends for the Earth to end like it’s written in Revelation anyway, so who am I to intervene?— are incredibly hard to convert to the cause of fighting climate change. Pleas from secular scientists and journalists are going to fall on deaf ears; the two sides end up mostly talking past each other.