The guilty parties destroying our civilization and planet will get away with it. The punishment the rest of us will face for their sins is biblical. Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z and Generation Alpha will be forced to watch life die thanks to the Baby Boomers, at least according to science.
In the Book of Exodus, God tells Moses that He forgives inequity, transgression and sin but that doesn’t actually clear the guilty because God will visit, “the inequities of the fathers upon the children and upon the children’s children unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
A lot of Baby Boomers will already have passed on from old age by 2030, when the UN says that runaway climate change will be locked in. They will blissfully meet their end after living the best life of any generation on Earth.
Baby Boomers grew up with the best public education of any country. They dismantled it so the wealthy could have more money to spend. Boomers inherited an economy that ranked number one in the world for healthcare and education. Under their leadership, the US ranking for healthcare and education declined to 27th.
When it comes to inequities, transgression and sin, the Baby Boomers elected the avatar of all three. Donald Trump ignored the scientific consensus and accelerated climate change with his obscene push for more hydrocarbon extraction. He is locking us into this death spiral with the appointment of extremist right wing judges who will stymie our attempts at saving ourselves in future court battles. Their choice for President condemns four generations to suffer.
This isn’t to say all Baby Boomers are bad but 53% of them voted for Trump and that was enough to condemn us. They won’t be around to live in the dystopia his courts create. They won’t be around to watch their children and grandchildren suffer from climate change.
There are many “Christians” who will disagree that Trump’s election brought us inequities, transgression and sin for which we must suffer the consequences. I ask them to think carefully about what they voted for: taking services from the poor to give money to the super rich (inequities), persecuting the stranger (transgression) and loading up the country with debt (sin). The consequences of these policies will haunt us for four generations whether you believe in God or not.
Exodus 34:7 read in the present day, as if written for our time, is the Bible’s way of saying, God may forgive you but the world won’t. There is no magic. There is only causality. Actions produce reactions that can echo through time, affecting your great-grandchildren.
Our four generations left behind by the Boomers are saddled with their ecological, financial and moral debts. God won’t suddenly appear and make those debts vanish. Instead, we will be subjected to annihilating punishment for ruining the creation given us.
A large majority of evangelical Christians believe that all of this is okay, because we’re in the end times and it must be God’s will. These people couldn’t be more wrong. Our creator gave us a brain to figure things out. Our brains figured out how to put the dead to work for us in the form of fossil fuels. Our brains also figured out, over a hundred years ago, that putting carbon into the atmosphere would alter the climate. We, humanity, made a choice knowing the risks. That’s not God’s will, that’s on us.
So what’s God going to do to save us? Nothing. God didn’t save his own kid from the cross, He sure isn’t going to save ours from a situation we caused.
If we want to save our planet, we’re going to have to do it ourselves.
Wes Clark Jr. 
Re Exodus 34:7
Your last three paragraphs are an accurate analysis of what I encounter with lowly educated and fundamentalists, yet I have seen very little study about the effect of religious fundamentalism and ‘disbelief’ in climate change or action. As in days of old, it’s easier for them to keep working away without looking up if they believe it’s out of their hands. I go round and round in my head with the chicken/egg scenario, alternating between empathy for those oppressed by no time to think because they’re too busy working for someone else’s profit and anger at their tribalism and superstition.
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