14 DAY TRIAL // A new research whose findings are expected to be published in this June's issue of the journal Political Science Quarterly says that the United States has thus far failed to take appropriate action on climate change because of Jesus and the Bible.
More precisely, it is the belief in both the second coming of Jesus and the teachings of the Bible that need be held accountable for the fact that some US citizens more often than not turn a blind eye to scientific evidence concerning climate change and global warming.
According to specialists David C. Barker and David H. Bearce, it all boils down to how people with a strong faith in the Bible relate to the future.
Religious people who take the Bible literally and do not attempt to attach any metaphorical sense to the stories in it are quite convinced that the second coming of Jesus is right around the corner.
Because of this, they are highly unlikely to let themselves be bothered with issues such as the need to implement legislations aimed at tackling climate change and global warming.
According to The Examiner, David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado summed up their findings by saying that:
“The fact that such an overwhelming percentage of Republican citizens profess a belief in the Second Coming (76 percent in 2006, according to our sample) suggests that governmental attempts to curb greenhouse emissions would encounter stiff resistance even if every Democrat in the country wanted to curb them.”
“It stands to reason that most non believers would support preserving the Earth for future generations, but that end-times believers would rationally perceive such efforts to be ultimately futile, and hence ill-advised,” the researchers further detailed.
It may very well be that their faith still keeps some American citizens from coming to terms with the fact that human-induced climate change and global warming are as real as it gets, yet several previous polls have shown that ever more of the country's citizens are beginning to take these issues seriously.