"In December of 1966, Lynn White, Jr. (1907-1987) delivered a controversial speech in Washington, D.C. entitled "The historical roots of our ecological crisis." White charged that Christianity "bears a huge burden of guilt" in helping to foster the present-day "out of control" degradation of the environment. White singled out Western Christianity as being primarily responsible for the wedding between science and technology that has left a devastating ecological scar on the modern landscape................"
Yet the atheist Soviet Union left even bigger environmental scars. The destruction of the Aral Sea and the fact that the Tula River still “glows in the dark” are just two examples. The air in Chengdu, China is still like smoking several packs per day.