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Its not just a generational issue, its also a religious one. A massive barrier to acceptance is admitting that humans have the ability to render earth uninhabitable, something that God either A) wouldn't allow to happen, or worse B) is allowing to happen because its part of the end times.

Why try to fix the problem if we aren't the masters of our own destiny?

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What should really be happening, at least from a Christian perspective, is that we should be good stewards of the earth.

"God wouldn't allow that to happen" is not a very Christian thing to say.

Job 1:21 - "Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord."

I hate how real I think this probably is. Anecdotally there is massive crossover between religious individuals and climate change deniers among people I know.

And only 33% of people in the world are Christian. Other religions might have an even larger fraction of climate change deniers.

I doubt it correlates as well. American Christian 'leaders' (specifically Evangelicals) have strategically married their religion and conservative talking points. It (climate change belief) is not as associated with identity in other cultures.

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