I was just reading "Questioning the Millennium" by Stephen Jay Gould [Thank you, Kat!]. On page 52, he cites former Secretary of the Interior James Warr, also a "prominent member of the Pentecostal Assembly of God, stated that we need not worry unduly about environmental deterioration (and should therefore not invest much governmental time, money or legislation in such questions) because the world will surely end before any deep damage can be done."

This says a lot about why religious [and often political] conservatives resist the logic of cleanung up in the present.