Larry Rasmussen , writing about Bonhoeffer, also aptly describes what we need to respond to the climate crisis: to see through the passive, blind, denial of the dire consequences toward which we are allowing ourselves to be pulled.

Resist the beginnings of compromises that dull the moral senses and take their ease in a life of cheap grace. Resist the beginnings that give evil, willed blindness, and civic passivity a foothold. Don’t let the right eye wink at complicity or the left hand abet it. Resist becoming unwitting accomplices to an errant leader. Resist all the places in your own soul that give way. A discerning spirituality is as vital as the right politics and indispensable to it.
– from an article in Sojourners Feb 2006 http://ow.ly/E3KY4

These calls to resistance,  from Bonhoeffer’s warnings re: the Nazi threat to the church,  still  indeed speak of  highly valuable skills needed by the church to resist the pressures of the state that prod us toward destructive actions,  little by little.  The climate crisis is no longer “little”,  but the steps we have taken toward it,  as they impact the climate (as far as we have been able (or , more accurately, willing)  to see,  are deceptively benign.  We are now seeing that these benign steps,  wrought continuous and long,  are anything but benign.  But this is the insidious nature of the gradual push of a corrupt and dangerous state;  push as far as it can with minimal political detection,  until it can precipitate a crisis which it will then also use as an excuse to implement even harsher measures (invoking Naomi Klein’s previous book here,  The Shock Doctrine) .

Simply put,  we, the church, have to AWAKEN.  Ecotheology has NEVER been so sorely needed (unless you rightly demur that if we had kept a Biblical, ecotheological faith all along,  we would not have the crisis that now calls for sharp subtractions of extractions and burning of fossil fuels,  and radical altering of our economic assumptions.