End-times doctrine correlates with lower climate change concern

Evidence

In a 2014 PRRI survey focused on climate change, for example, this correlation between this premillennial end-time thinking and lower support for human intervention in social problems was striking. More than three-quarters of white evangelicals, compared with less than half of Americans overall, agreed that the severity of recent natural disasters was a sign that we were living in “the end times.” And while approximately six in ten Americans overall believed climate change was a major problem or a crisis to be addressed, only 44 percent of white evangelicals agreed. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 266

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Premillennial eschatology structurally undermines social justice commitment — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 265; End-times theology split between premillennialists and postmillennialists yet believers often hold both — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 621; White evangelicals read natural disasters as end-times signs and resist climate action — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 266

Broader Connections

• End-times theology split between premillennialists and postmillennialists yet believers often hold both #qualifies (0.75) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 621