I don't believe that I have a religious bone in my body. I do sometimes wonder if it's possible that the doomerism is some sort of sublimated religious thing for me, but I think it's that I just believe both the scientists and the economists; the scientists that we are heading for catastrophic consequences if we do not rapidly draw down carbon (starting a decade or two ago preferably), and the economists that it would be disastrous if we do so. It leaves humanity between a rock and a hard place. It probably doesn't help that I live in South Texas which in my life has seen summers go from being uncomfortably hot to dangerous.

It's not an easy thing to accept, though I think it helps greatly that I don't have and never wanted children; still I'd prefer that the collective children of humanity have a future they can look forward to.