The man who has been called “the most influential evangelical anti-environmentalist in the United States,” Calvin Beisner, told an interviewer in 2016 that people should be concerned with the fate of their eternal souls, not about the state of this merely temporary planet—as though it’s somehow necessary to choose. Many of us are enrolled at birth in a lifelong program based on the idea that: I am more important than the world itself. Could any thought be more self-serving?
