Idea that it is science and technology (and STEM and blue staters, etc.), that are responsible for climate change, not religion or the religious (insofar as they are religious.)
Related Climate change is a problem created by technology. Not by religion, not by “human nature” in some general sense: Created by human attempts to make nature yield to its purposes.
Related There is no basis, within religion, to believe in climate change, just as there is no basis, within science, to believe in God. (A person of ordinary understanding, in order to believe either in God or in Climate Change, must defer to persons of authority.)
Related Climate change is a technology problem. If religious people (insofar as they are religious) mistakenly view it as a spiritual problem (i.e., a version of the flood), or as a spiritual problem of the wrong sort, they are really not to be blamed for the consequences of their being mistaken. (To be blamed, perhaps, are those who have adopted a technology without understanding its long-term consequences, without having some kind of exit plan.)
Idea That there are those enthusiastic about technology and who adapt to it readily and gracefully (roughly: blue staters), and those wary of technology and who adapt to it slowly and out of necessity (roughly: red staters), and this difference comprises part of the political problem when the changing of people’s use of technology becomes a moral (race slavery) or existential (carbon fuels) imperative.
In the current debate it is the “climate deniers” that are tasked with being a problem and rightly so. But it is the lovers of technology who have brought us to this dilemma and who may well bring us to the next one.
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