Good article, you pretty much cover it all! I'm very interested in the relationship between end times prophecies, from Christianity to the Mayans to the Hopi Indians, and the myriad crises wrought by ecological overshoot. Did human beings have some kind of mystical foreknowledge? Or maybe there's some science we've yet to uncover, something about, how Carl Sagan would put it, we have star dust in our bones. Maybe when things were quieter, and people were generally more contemplative, we were able to tap into something prescient. Or, maybe it's a kind of self-fulfilling prophesy.

My wife was raised fundamentalist. And, to some extent, she's averse to thinking about climate change. (At least not as much as I do.) There *is* something that seems fundamentalist about it, something almost religious, particularly among the "doomers" (I consider myself one), and I find myself ruminating on this a bit.

I'd be all ears if you write any more articles about the possible connections between religious prophesy and our current environmental predicament...