**Climate alarmism as a manifestation of the religious instinct **

We need a place, symbolically speaking, to put hell and the apocalypse./nThe reason we need a place to put the apocalypse is because the human vision is apocalyptic./nThe reason for that is that we all die, right? Everything comes to a cataclysmic halt for everyone./nIt could happen at any moment./nIt could not only happen to you, it could happen to you and everyone you love./nIt could happen to your whole society./nAnd that sort of thing has happened./nAnd it definitely always threatens./nAnd so one of our existential problems is that we always have to face the apocalypse./nThe way that's been handled in Christianity is that the apocalypse is a distant, it's a distant occurrence in a heavenly place./nBut it's turned into a psychological reality or a spiritual reality, and an everpresent spiritual reality, instead of being necessarily played out in the here and now./nBut then there's a place for it./nAnd that's appropriate because there should be a place for it.