I asked myself the question “what is the correlation between believing in the Rapture and not believing in Global Warming?”
What I discovered was that “for a significant number of Americans, the reality, causes and meaning of global warming are seen through the lens of their religious beliefs. Some reject the evidence that humans are causing global warming because they believe God controls the climate. Others believe that global warming is evidence that the world will be ending soon, and that we don’t need to worry about global warming in light of the approaching apocalypse...”
http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/global-warming-god-end-times/
http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Global-Warming-God-and-the-End-Times.pdf
The above goes hand in hand with the fact that “many Christian fundamentalists feel that concern for the future of our planet is irrelevant, because it has no future. They believe we are living in the End Time, when the son of God will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. They may also believe, along with millions of other Christian fundamentalists, that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed — even hastened — as a sign of the coming Apocalypse.”
Excellent article:
https://grist.org/article/scherer-christian/
