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Sunday, November 23rd, 2014

A big reason climate change isn’t a priority: The apocalypse

Author:     Aaron Blake
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     11/21/2014
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Stephan:   Day after day I track trends and I have become increasingly concerned about the disconnect between what climate change is going to do, and the strange uninterest the subject seems to hold for most Americans. Part of this I ascribe to the massive disinformation campaign being carried out by the carbon industries, and their overwhelming corruption of our democracy. But I also recognized that there was something deeper, and this report describes what I think it is. And once again we can see the toxic effects of fundamentalist religion. Evangelic Christians, Black and particularly White, as the graph shows, are so brainwashed with the nonsensical form of Christianity that has taken over that religion that they literally have lost the ability to think clearly and assess information factually.  

EndTimes graphIf you want to understand how little urgency there is among the American public about climate change, consider this:

A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute asked people about the severity of recent natural disasters. About six in 10 (62 percent) said climate change is at least partly to blame.  About half — 49 percent — cited the biblical end times (as in, the apocalypse) for the recent natural disasters. That latter number is up five points from 2011.

(People were allowed to volunteer more than one cause.)Michelle Boorstein has the big run-down of all the numbers from the survey, and we would urge folks to check out her story. The end-times view is held by especially large numbers of white evangelical Christians (77 percent) and black Protestants (74 percent).

 

The fact that half of Americans cite the end times as a cause of recent severe weather events suggests a kind of fatalism that would certainly lead to less urgency when it comes to issues like climate change. Even many of those who believe in climate change — and about one-quarter of Americans don’t, per the survey — seem to think natural disasters are part […]

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