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Last updated 3/5/2025
1. Many conservative Christians believe global warming and climate change are hoaxes.
Uncritical examples
An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming | Cornwall Alliance
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"How should a Christian view global warming?" | Got Questions
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Politics Disguised as Science: When to Doubt a Scientific 'Consensus' by Jay W. Richards | Discovery Institute (April 2017)
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Why I'm a Climate Denier and You Should Be Too by John Zmirak | The Stream (September 2022)
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Why a Christian SHOULD Vote for Donald Trump to be President by Al Baker | Early Christian History Matters (September 2024)
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Commentary
The 'Green Dragon' Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection | Right Wing Watch (April 2011)
Epic Christian Fails: Pastor Robert Jeffress and the Greta Thunberg Contingency | Not Your Mission Field (September 2019)
Astroturf "Religious" Organizations Deny Global Warming and Denigrate Christians | The Legend Of Pine Ridge (February 2011)
2. Some Christians have declared environmentalism a false religion.
Uncritical examples
Resisting The Green Dragon
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Global Warming Unmasked : The Hidden Agenda | ChurchMilitant.TV
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Why Gen Z is Leaving Christianity! | Learning From Christ (May 2023, lists climate change among things Gen Z cares about more than Christianity)
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Commentary
Obama's “Phony Religion” is Environmentalism, Santorum Explains by Julie Ingersoll | Religion Dispatches (August 2012)
Santorum not Source of 'Phony Theology' Idea, Origins in 'Biblical Economics' Partnership by Rachel Tabachnick | Talk To Action (February 2012)
3. Some Christians believe that there is no point in caring for the environment because God will destroy it soon anyway.
Uncritical examples
None yet
Commentary
Why I Don't Think Mark Driscoll Was Joking | Love, Joy, Feminism (May 2013)
More about anti-environmentalism in Christian spaces
Evangelical Environmentalism | New York Times (March 2007)
Evangelical Voters May Be Up for Grabs in '08 by Barbara Bradley Hagerty | National Public Radio (May 2007)
L.B.: Nineveh | slacktivist (June 2005)
Shimkus cites Genesis on climate by Darren Samuelsohn | Politico (November 2010)
U.S. Evangelist: Not Using Fossil Fuels Is An Insult To God by Farron Cousins | DeSmog (December 2012)
The Real Reasons Why Evangelical Embrace of Environmentalism Lags by Sarah Posner | Religion Dispatches (June 2011)
Further information
Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom by Katie Worth | Scientific American (July 2022)
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