《Welcome to Doomsday》是2006年10月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Bill Moyers。
基本介紹
- 書名：Welcome to Doomsday
- 作者：Bill Moyers
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781590172094
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
The influence of the evangelical Christian right on the Bushadministration has had a mostly unnoticed impact on America'senvironmental policy. While some take God’s granting of dominionover the earth to man as a call to good stewardship of our planet,many evangelicals distrust science and disdain environmentalprotections. They live in anticipation of one event: the Rapture,when Christ will return to cleanse the earth while the truebelievers are transported to heaven. For those who believe that theRapture and the destruction of the world are imminent, there is noneed to be concerned about saving the planet from environmentalcatastrophe.
Welcome to Doomsday is an investigation into the coupling ofideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion intopolitical life, in America today. Global climate change is a rapid,possibly irreversible occurrence, yet the stance taken by the WhiteHouse in both international and domestic arenas is one of bothignorance and disbelief. Appeasing the influential agendas ofcorporations, as well as the uncompromising dominant beliefs ofevangelical groups, the Bush administration has firmly establisheda disastrous record of ignoring the urgency of potentiallydevastating changing climate.
Welcome to Doomsday is a passionate call to save the planet fromthe forces not only of greed and exploitation but from those whoassociate its destruction with a spiritual apocalypse. Written bythe compelling and articulate Bill Moyers, this is essentialreading for anyone interested in the current dismal state ofenvironmental policy as well as in the growing power of theevangelical movement in the United States.
作者簡介
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.
