Crisis

Global warming and ocean acidification are a major threat to our current civilization.

I can understand disagreement about whether it is happening, though there's accumulating evidence that it has been happening due to increasing CO2 concentrations, and I can understand disagreement about what to do about it, since there're so many challenges.

I can't understand the mindset that leads some people to drive in circles during Earth Hour, to cancel out other people's not using as much energy during Earth Hour.

(Spite isn't always a bad thing, but it often is.)

Anyway, there's a leaked draft of an encyclical from the Roman pope, regarding global warming. Anyway, this has attracted a lot of anti-environmentalist comments arguing that either he is a dupe, or he is a secret Marxist, or he is Teh Antichrist revealed in Revelation.

(Although Revelation was controversial among early Christians, so why do so many anti-Roman-Catholics consider it canonical?)

Now what worries me is that this cultural-religious movement against environmentalism isn't likely to help find better solutions to environmental problems, is likely to enable continued fossil fuel subsidies, is likely to hurt efforts to stop carbon pollution, isn't especially unlikely to fuel political-religious violence against envoronmental activists, and is quite likely to enable state violence against environmental activists.