Cult of the Coming Beast Part 2 :: By Joe Hawkins

Climate Change Agenda: Eco-Apocalyptic Cultism and Global Conformity

If COVID fear united people under a banner of health security, the climate change agenda seeks to unite the world under a banner of environmental salvation. Over the past decade, and especially in recent years, we have witnessed the rise of what many are openly calling the “climate cult” or a new green religion. In this movement, apocalyptic warnings about the planet’s future play the same role as virus case counts did in the pandemic: they induce sustained fear and a sense of emergency, which in turn justify extreme measures and silence dissent.

Climate Fear and Youth Indoctrination

Central to the climate agenda is a narrative of impending doom. We are told, repeatedly, that unless we fundamentally alter human society, the earth faces catastrophic collapse. The messaging often has specific time frames – “12 years to save the planet” (a figure popularized around 2018) or similar deadlines – which continually get revised as earlier predictions fail to materialize. This rhetoric has given rise to what can only be described as eco-anxiety, especially among the young.

A 2021 large-scale survey of 10,000 youth (in 10 countries) found that three-quarters of young people felt “the future is frightening” due to climate change. More than half said their daily life is affected by climate anxiety, and a significant portion are hesitant to have children because they fear a climate-ruined future. These statistics are startling: they reveal a generation deeply indoctrinated to believe an apocalypse is virtually certain in their lifetime. Terms like “climate grief” and “Solastalgia” (distress caused by environmental change) have entered the lexicon to describe the mental toll.

In schools and media, children are often presented with worst-case scenarios (mass extinction, unlivable heat, submerged cities) without context. They are taught to see humanity’s impact in the starkest terms, frequently absent the hopeful balance of human ingenuity or adaptive capacity. The result is a near-paralyzing fear for many.

Some teen and child activists claim “we have no future,” that they’ve been robbed of their childhood by climate fears – a tragic self-fulfilling prophecy of despair. Under such psychological pressure, young people are primed to rally behind any drastic policy that promises to “save the planet,” even at great cost to human prosperity or freedom. This is by design: a frightened populace (especially if inculcated from youth) is more likely to accept authoritarian solutions, much like anxious pandemic populations accepted lockdowns.

Notably, climate activism has explicitly cultivated a youth movement – from Greta Thunberg, the iconic teen climate prophetess, to the thousands of school children who participate in climate strikes (even during school hours, often encouraged by educators). The imagery is deliberate: youth are portrayed as the morally pure voices crying out in the wilderness, shaming the adult world for its sins against Mother Earth.

This lends the movement a quasi-religious moral high ground: critics of radical climate policies are easily painted as “deniers” (a term deliberately evoking Holocaust denial) or as heretics against a sacred consensus. In effect, an in-group vs out-group dynamic has formed. The faithful “believers” accept every dire prediction and the necessity of sweeping societal transformation; the “deniers” are not just mistaken but morally evil, akin to enemies of the common good. This black-and-white mindset is, again, characteristic of cults.

The Green Religion and Cult-Like Behavior

Many commentators have observed that the climate movement resembles a religion – complete with doctrines, priests, indulgences, and end-of-world prophecies. Consider some parallels:

>Doctrine of Doom: The core teaching is that we are headed toward apocalypse (flood, fire, famine) due to human sin (usually defined as carbon emissions, industrial activity, and overconsumption). This teaching is rarely open for debate; it is presented as settled dogma. As one writer quipped, “The religion of global warming preaches doom and punishment” for humanity’s transgressions. Every heatwave or hurricane is pointed to as evidence of our pending punishment, reinforcing the dogma. Dissenting scientific views, even by climatologists, are treated not as a normal part of scientific discourse but as blasphemy.

>High Priests and Prophets: Leading voices like certain UN officials, activist-scientists, or even celebrity spokespeople (e.g. former VP Al Gore, who narrates the climate gospel in films) function as high priests. They issue encyclicals and prophecies about climate doom. Notably, when some of their predictions fail (such as Gore’s 2006 warning of Arctic ice vanishing by 2013, which did not happen), the timeline is simply adjusted – much as cult leaders often adjust prophecy dates – and the faithful continue believing.

A Hoover Institution piece dubbed this movement the “Cult of Climatism,” noting that its “high priests” hedge their bets even while laying out furious dogmas. But the congregation is expected not to notice the discrepancies. In fact, true believers double down in the face of failed predictions, a phenomenon psychologists call cognitive dissonance – common in cults that have predicted doomsdays.

>Slogans and Mantras: The climate cult has its mantras: “Climate Justice,” “Net Zero,” “Save the Planet,” “Extinction Rebellion.” These phrases are chanted at protests and plastered on banners, reinforcing group identity. They carry emotional weight and brook no nuance – similar to a creed recited in unison.

>Rituals and Sacrifices: We see the promotion of symbolic actions that echo religious rituals. Yearly global climate conferences (COP meetings) are like high feasts where the initiated gather and reaffirm their vows to cut emissions (though often leaving in private jets afterward). Everyday behaviors are moralized – recycling, driving electric cars, eating vegan – akin to acts of personal piety demonstrating one’s righteousness.

There is even a concept of “carbon footprint” with parallels to the idea of personal sin or karma. Individuals and companies can buy carbon offsets, which bear an uncanny resemblance to indulgences in medieval church practice – pay a fee to absolve your carbon sins.

Meanwhile, regular people are told to make sacrifices: consume less, travel less, perhaps even have fewer children. A strain of anti-natalism (viewing human reproduction as harmful) has grown, as seen in surveys where a portion of youth express reluctance to have kids due to climate crisis. This is nothing less than the sacrifice of human future on the altar of Gaia, the earth deity of this new religion.

>Fanaticism and Punishing Dissent: Extremes of behavior in the climate movement underscore its cult-like zeal. Activist groups like Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil have carried out theatrical and disruptive protests – from blocking highways and gluing themselves to museum art, to even violence against property. One former XR leader, Zion Lights, described how she “watched people brainwashed into pulling outrageous stunts in the name of ‘saving the planet.’” She noted that fellow activists were effectively manipulated to break laws or endanger themselves, all under group pressure and apocalyptic fervor.

This level of zeal, where anything is justified “because the world is at stake,” is very much cult psychology. Additionally, voices that question the severity of the crisis or the efficacy of proposed policies are often smeared or excommunicated from academic and political circles. Renowned climate scientists who diverge from alarmism have been likened to heretics. The pressure to conform within scientific institutions is immense – funding and reputations often hinge on endorsing the consensus. This enforcement of orthodoxy stifles healthy debate, just as a cult permits no questioning of its dogma.

The policy demands coming out of the climate agenda indeed call for sweeping controls that would transform life as we know it. Activists and sympathetic policymakers advocate for measures like banning fossil fuels outright, rapidly eliminating gasoline cars, forbidding new oil/gas exploration, capping meat consumption, restricting air travel, and “de-growth” economic strategies. De-growth entails deliberately shrinking the economy – fewer goods produced and consumed – on the theory that this will reduce environmental impact.

In practice, such measures would mean a dramatically lower standard of living, especially in developed nations, and tight government regulation of resources and personal behavior. We already see moves in this direction: for example, some cities propose “15-minute city” models where car use is heavily curtailed and people’s movement is confined to certain zones. There are also agricultural clampdowns (like plans to cut nitrogen fertilizer use, which sparked mass farmer protests in the Netherlands). Under the banner of sustainability, control over energy, food, land, and mobility is increasing.

All of this aligns with what Desmet observed even prior to COVID: growing calls from within the population “for strict government controls” to solve crises like terrorism, climate change, and now viruses. In other words, people – gripped by fear – voluntarily ask for more top-down authority over their lives, believing it’s the only solution. Desmet called this the rise of a “new totalitarianism… led by dull bureaucrats and technocrats” rather than flamboyant dictators.

Climate technocracy fits this bill perfectly: unelected panels, scientists, and NGOs essentially dictating what kind of car you can drive, how you heat your home, what you eat, even how many children you should have – all for the supposed greater good. It is a technocratic utopian vision that brooks little opposition because the stakes are portrayed as existential.

From a biblical perspective, this fervor bears resemblance to worshiping the creation instead of the Creator. As Romans 1:25 says, “they exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator….”

Modern culture’s almost spiritual obsession with “saving Mother Earth” – while largely rejecting God’s sovereignty – is a grand example of this inversion. There is a spiritual void being filled by nature worship and utopian idealism. The climate cult often edges into pagan nature worship and animism (e.g. referring to the Earth as Gaia, treating nature with quasi-personhood) theotivity.com.

One Christian commentator noted that “while the modern-day climate cult shrouds its message in the language of science, progress and sustainability, really it is simply a regression to pagan nature worship.”

Indeed, some climate activists openly speak of humans as a virus or cancer on the earth, implying that fewer humans = moral good. For instance, biologist Paul Ehrlich (of Population Bomb fame) once likened humanity to a metastasizing cancer. Such misanthropic views illustrate how far the cult will go – even to the point of celebrating decline in human population for the earth’s sake. This is starkly opposed to the biblical view of humans as God’s image-bearers with stewardship over creation (Genesis 1:26-28).

Globalism is another dimension of the climate agenda. By its nature, climate change is a global issue requiring global coordination. This has fostered a drive toward international governance mechanisms. There are increasing calls for empowering bodies like the United Nations or new multilateral agreements to enforce climate regulations across nations. Some have floated the idea of a global carbon tax or even a climate enforcement agency. While pitched as cooperative altruism, these ideas also concentrate power in a centralized authority.

Bible prophecy warns of a future one-world government (“authority was given him [the Beast] over every tribe, tongue, and nation,” Revelation 13:7) and likely a one-world ideology or religion (as the False Prophet causes the world to worship the Beast).

The climate crusade, by uniting nations and religions (note that Pope Francis gathered world religious leaders to “unite… in opposing the devastation of the environment”), could be a stepping stone toward that kind of unity. It’s sobering that the Pope himself has been a major advocate of the climate agenda, even suggesting caring for creation is a unifying moral duty of all faiths. This blends religious ecumenism with climate activism – a mix that, while seemingly noble, might play into the False Prophet’s strategy of a one-world spiritual movement (Revelation 13:11-12).

In summary, the climate change movement exhibits many marks of a cult: it leverages fear of apocalypse, demands ideological purity, elevates gurus, and justifies extreme sacrifices. It conditions people – especially the young – to accept radical changes and authoritarian controls as not only necessary but virtuous. This mentality, if one day redirected or intensified by a charismatic end-times leader, could facilitate global worship of a false savior. One can imagine the Antichrist using environmental crises alongside other fears to consolidate power, perhaps even performing “signs” to appease nature (false miracles to “prove” he can fix the climate?).

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 says the lawless one will come “with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception” – very possibly exploiting whatever issues people are most desperate about, including the environment.

The climate cult conditions humanity to think globally and reverentially, but without discernment of truth. It primes the world to “believe the lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:11) that we must worship the creation, or its self-appointed guardians, instead of the Creator.

Next [part 3], we turn to technology – the rapidly advancing tool that will give any would-be global dictator the means to enforce his cult.

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