The influence of the evangelical Christian right on the Bush
來源：香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk administration has had a mostly unnoticed impact on America''s
environmental policy. While some take God’s granting of dominion
over the earth to man as a call to good stewardship of our planet,
many evangelicals distrust science and disdain environmental
protections. They live in anticipation of one event: the Rapture,
when Christ will return to cleanse the earth while the true
believers are transported to heaven. For those who believe that the
Rapture and the destruction of the world are imminent, there is no
need to be concerned about saving the planet from environmental
catastrophe.
Welcome to Doomsday is an investigation into the coupling of
ideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion into
political life, in America today. Global climate change is a rapid,
possibly irreversible occurrence, yet the stance taken by the White
House in both international and domestic arenas is one of both
ignorance and disbelief. Appeasing the influential agendas of
corporations, as well as the uncompromising dominant beliefs of
evangelical groups, the Bush administration has firmly established
a disastrous record of ignoring the urgency of potentially
devastating changing climate.
Welcome to Doomsday is a passionate call to save the planet from
the forces not only of greed and exploitation but from those who
associate its destruction with a spiritual apocalypse. Written by
the compelling and articulate Bill Moyers, this is essential
reading for anyone interested in the current dismal state of
environmental policy as well as in the growing power of the
evangelical movement in the United States.
關於作者：
BILL MOYERS is the former host of NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS.
He was one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, spokesperson for
President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday, senior
correspondent for CBS News, and producer of many of public
television’s groundbreaking series. He is the winner of more than
thirty Emmy Awards, and the author of the bestselling books
Listening to America, A World of Ideas, and Healing and the Mind.
He lives in New York.
BILL MCKIBBEN is a former staff writer for The New Yorker. His
books include Hundred Dollar Holiday, Maybe One, The End of Nature,
The Age of Missing Information and Hope, Human and Wild. McKibben
is a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications,
including The New York Review of Books, Outside, and The New York
Times. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack
Mountains of New York.
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