A special three-part publication
Mar 26, 2026
AI doomsaying mirrors religious apocalypticism, where prophets of destruction also promise salvation, revealing a faith in technology disguised as fear of it.
Teaching climate fiction helps students face loss without fatalism, imagine ethical lives, and sustain hope amid environmental crisis.
Climate skeptics, including leaders in the Pentagon, frame environmentalism as a “religion” to justify rolling back climate policy.
Del Toro revives Shelley’s myth of creation and blasphemy, but history reveals older traditions where 'playing God' was seen as sacred, not sinful.