ABSTRACT
Global transformation and climate change jettison humanism out of its philosophical entanglements and transform humanitarianism into a world-forming cult of action animated by missionary zeal. The Para-religious construction of Anthropocene contrasts with organized religious' interventions into the climate change debate. The Para-religious engagement with the Anthropocene can be organized along three dialectical movements: ecological humanism and sustainability as religion/the sacred; green ecologies and eco-paganism; and anthropocentric apocalypticism. Apocalyptic Para-religions of Anthropocene inscribe themselves in the tradition of negative theology. From Gaia movements to post-natal ethics to voluntary human extinction movements, anthropocenic apocalypticism goes to the end in its engagement with Anthropocene and welcomes the demise of the human species. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT), described by Stephen Hicks as being firmly in grip of zero-sum anti-humanist environmentalism, is perhaps the most vocal of apocalyptic climate cults. The church of Euthanasia represents species consciousness at its limit point and synthesizes its rabid anti-humanism with an anti-capitalist, anti-modern and anti-Christian agenda.
