n class="init-cap">The United Nations has called climate change “the defining issue of our time.” In some corners, the global response to climate change is more urgently discussed than ever. In towns and cities around the planet, demonstrations and strikes have brought millions into the streets. Scientific bodies, including the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment, have issued calls for concerted action. In 2019, Time magazine named climate activist Greta Thunberg its “Person of the Year.” And yet, there is at least one politically influential demographic that remains mostly unmoved—conservative white evangelical Christians in the United States. Explanations are varied, but one popular theory suggests that end-times theology has primed evangelicals for apathy. A new book examines that possibility.Read Full Article »
