1186

Matthew C. Nisbet, “How Bill McKibben Changed Environmental Politics and Took on the Oil Patch,” Policy Options, May 1, 2013, https://policyoptions.irpp.org.

1187

McKibben, The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life, 183.

1188

Bill McKibben, The End of Nature (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006), 71.

1189

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: Random House, 1994), 661.

1190

Alston Chase, A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003), 320–322.

1191

Mark Sagoff, “The Rise and Fall of Ecological Economics,” Breakthrough Journal 2 (Fall 2011), https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-2/the-rise-and-fall-of-ecological-economics.

1192

Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 423.

1193

Environmentalism is the dominant religion in many nations outside of the “West,” as well. Both South Korea and Taiwan are led by ostensibly secular anti-nuclear, pro-renewables environmentalists who make apocalyptic statements about climate change nearly identical to those made by the European Greens and U.S. Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Robert H. Nelson, The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), xv.

1194

Carl M. Hand and Kent D. Van Liere, “Religion, Mastery-over-Nature, and Environmental Concern,” Social Forces 63, no. 2 (December 1984): 555–70, https://doi.org/10.2307/2579062. Mark Morrison, Roderick Duncan, and Kevin Parton, “Religion Does Matter for Climate Change Attitudes and Behavior,” PLOS ONE 10, no. 8 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134868. James L. Guth, John C. Green, Lyman A. Kellstedt, and Corwin E. Smidt, “Faith and the Environment: Religious Beliefs and Attitudes on Environmental Policy,” American Journal of Political Science 39, no. 2 (1995): 364–82, https://doi.org/10.2307/2111617. Paul Wesley Schultz and Lynette Zelezny, “Values as Predictors of Environmental Attitudes: Evidence for Consistency Across 14 Countries,” Journal of Environmental Psychology 19, no. 3 (1999): 255–65, https://doi.org/10.1006/jevp.1999.0129. Bron Taylor, Gretel Van Wieren, and Bernard Zaleha, “The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two): Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr., to Pope Francis,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10, no. 3 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29011. Paul Wesley Schultz, Lynnette Zelezny, and Nancy Dalrymple, “A Multinational Perspective on the Relation Between Judeo-Christian Religious Beliefs and Attitudes of Environmental Concern,” Environment and Behavior 32, no. 4 (2000): 576–91, https://doi.org/10.1177/00139160021972676.

1195

Oliver Milman and David Smith, “ ‘Listen to the Scientists’: Greta Thunberg Urges Congress to Take Action,” The Guardian, September 18, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com.

1196

Robert H. Nelson, The New Holy Wars (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), xv.

1197

Robert H. Nelson, The New Holy Wars (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), xv.

1198

Jonathan Haidt, “Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion,” Edge, September 21, 2007, https://www.edge.org.

1199

Michael Barkun, “Divided Apocalypse: Thinking About the End in Contemporary America,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no.3 (1983): 258, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41178260.

1200

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Chase, A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism, 203.

1201

Chase, A Mind for Murder, 201.

1202

Chase, A Mind for Murder, 205–206.

1203

Pascal Bruckner, The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings (Boston: Polity Press, 2013), 19.

1204

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (New York: Free Press, 1973).

1205

Ibid., 5.

1206

Zion Lights (Extinction Rebellion spokesperson), email correspondence with the author, January 4, 2020. Leslie Hook, “Greta Thunberg: ‘All My Life I’ve Been the Invisible Girl,’ ” Financial Times, February 22, 2019, https://www.ft.com. Sarah Lunnon (Extinction Rebellion spokesperson) in discussion with the author, November 26, 2019.

1207

Ines Testoni, Tommaso Gheller, Maddalena Rodelli et al., “Representations of Death Among Italian Vegetarians: Ethnographic Research on Environment, Disgust and Transcendence,” Europe’s Journal of Psychology 13, no. 3 (August 2017): 378–95, https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1301.

1208

Ibid., 378–395.

1209

Rachel N. Lipari and Eunice Park-Lee, Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019, http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/cbhsq-reports/NSDUHNationalFindingsReport2018/NSDUHNationalFindingsReport2018.pdf. “Adolescent Mental Health in the European Union,” World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/383891/adolescent-mh-fs-eng.pdf?ua=1.

1210

Jean M. Twenge, A. Bell Cooper, Thomas E. Joiner et al., “Age, Period, and Cohort Trends in Mood Disorder Indicators and Suicide-Related Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Dataset, 2005–2017,” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 128, no. 3 (2019): 185–99, https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000410. Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Nikki Graf, “Most US Teens See Anxiety and Depression as a Major Problem Among Their Peers,” Pew Research Center, February 20, 2019, https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/02/20/most-u-s-teens-see-anxiety-and-depression-as-a-major-problem-among-their-peers.

1211

Richard Rhodes, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990).

1212

Richard Rhodes (historian) in discussion with the author, November 12, 2019.

1213

Brendan O’Neill, “The Madness of Extinction Rebellion,”