This article on Climate Crisis Denial (http://projectearth.us/why-you-shouldnt-call-climate-deniers-stupid-1797860254) and the comments on this shared by the folks at Years of Living Dangerously (see https://www.facebook.com/YearsOfLiving/posts/1462319603855093 )   highlights something else the church will have to start taking seriously as we try to comprehend and respond to the denial of our ecological situation in this culture. This is a matter of utmost importance for “pastoral care”. It is a matter of pastoral care, because it is a matter of grave ethical consequences, toward which we have the responsibility to guide our congregations in the way of sane, responsible, “interdependent” living. If we don’t, we will be yet another institution that has fallen prey to the false story of “unlimited growth” and misplaced confidence in the “power of technology”. It’s our technology that has brought us here (not ALL of it, but much of it).