The influence of the evangelical Christian right on the Bushadministration has had a mostly unnoticed impact on America'senvironmental policy. While some take God’s granting of dominionover the earth to man as a call to good stewardship of our planet,many evangelicals distrust science and disdain environmentalprotections. They live in anticipation of one event: the Rapture,when Christ will return to cleanse the earth while the truebelievers are transported to heaven. For those who believe that theRapture and the destruction of the world are imminent, there is noneed to be concerned about saving the planet from environmentalcatastrophe. Welcome to Doomsday is an investigation into the coupling ofideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion intopolitical life, in America today. Global climate change is a rapid,possibly irreversible occurrence, yet the stance taken by the WhiteHouse in both international and domestic arenas is one of bothignorance and disbelief. Appeasing the inf
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