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　　The influence of the evangelical Christian right on the Bush

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.

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　　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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　　"Doomsday refers to "a time of catastrophic destruction and

death," and clearly, ours qualifies. War rages, terrorists kill,

natural disasters escalate, and people suffer on all fronts.

Overarching these horrors are the dire threats of global warming, a

slow-motion catastrophe our leaders refuse to acknowledge or

attempt to combat. This brings us to the second definition of

doomsday, as a day of final reckoning, for Christians the End Times

leading up to the Second Coming. This is where journalist Moyers

enters the picture. Himself a graduate of a Texas Baptist seminary,

Moyers succinctly and decisively links the Bush administration's

obdurate disregard for science and environmental realities to the

corrosive influence of the Christian Right. Since Christian

Fundamentalists see the Iraq War and attacks on Israel as necessary

precursors to the Rapture, why should true believers worry about

the biosphere? God will take care of his own until Christ returns

and the saved are lifted up from this polluted, extinction-plagued,

and warming world. Moyers' concise yet meticulous critique of this

dangerous viewpoint is clear and necessary. -Donna Seaman

　　YA: Moyers notes that religious materials given to teens tend to

dismiss biological realities; this provides invaluable checks and

balances. DS." –Booklist

　　“The truth is, the [Alaska National Wildlife Refuge] vote is

merely a small part of a larger…neoconservative attitude that has

a…fundamentalist belief in the End Times, in the Apocalypse. Don't

believe it? Have yourself a nice read of famed journalist Bill

Moyer's delicate, excellent essay "Welcome to Doomsday" via the New

York Review of Books, which brings in all the numbers and data into

a beautifully articulate essay on the state of the American

religious landscape..–The San Francisco Chronicle

　　Praise for Moyers:

　　“Bill Moyers speaks for, and to, the conscience of our

nation.”—Walter Cronkite

　　“Bill Moyers believes with his very heart-bone in the interchange

of ideas, in individuals speaking out. . . . And he is, in a very

real sense, a man of faith: of faith in America.”—James Dickey, The

New York Times

　　"Not only a good reporter... a first-rate storyteller."–The

Boston Globe

　　"Bill Moyers is doing what Madison and Jefferson desperately

hoped the press would do –provide information ... so that the

people would be informed enough to enable constitutional democracy

to survive."–Nat Hentoff

书籍介绍

The influence of the evangelical Christian right on the Bush 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.