How the Climate Influences Religion

I'm reading a book called Apocalypse. The book plots huge changes in human behavior that happened in response to apocalypses. As archeologists continue to discover more human history we now know there were humans living in many places before there were many feet of ice. The Red River Valley of the North is an example. They had to move. The black plague wiped out over half the population in Europe. There were floods and droughts where people had to change diets and move on. 

Preceding each of these apocalypses generations lived with the anticipation things would remain as they were forever. If there was some memory passed down from generations before those events were probably not considered important to life at that moment in time. Lots of things in today's Christianity are climate dependent. There is no planning that some apocalypse might happen. 

One of them is the abundance of food and housing. When I have mentioned the wisdom of limiting population growth or even reducing the size of world population it always implies approval of birth control and abortion. I remember well the first discussion I had as a mayor with a local anti-abortion zealot. After I had explained the world's resources are finite and sooner or later population will use them up, he told me with confidence, "The Lord will provide. It says so right in the Bible." Countless comments on this blog have instructed me there is plenty of food and space. The weather during the past century or so has been favorable for food production longer than even in the known life of earth. The probability of unfavorable climate has to be high. Religion, however, is too blinded by myth, growth and control to pay any attention to this history. 

The closest I have ever been to physical sites of antiquity was during visits to Mexico and Guatemala. One can still climb religious pyramids where royalty led religious ceremonies. I suppose those in attendance paid some kind of tax to support the royalty and the religion. There are many sites like the one I visited and many more have been seen with new penetrating cameras. Every one of these many sites and I assume the religion practiced there has been abandoned. The Spanish contributed buy it is thought climate also made the worshippers into doubters and they moved away. 

Leaders in Islam and Christianity try to drive the population higher. If food becomes scarce, I suppose they will blame Satan, other religions and atheists. It's the nature of their business to do that.