Is this God-bashing? This article (free registration) discusses the marginal island nation of Tuvalu wrestling with the issue of global warming. Here is a quaint excerpt:

Today, many Tuvaluans have a literal faith in the Bible and don't believe any harm will come from global warming. Shopkeeper Lutelu Kofe, 46, is typical. He is more concerned about harm to the community from rising alcohol levels than rising water levels. "I read the Bible, and God said to Noah, 'No more floods,' " Kofe said. "So I'm not worried. When I see the sea, it's the same as before."

European missionaries really did a good job in some parts of the world. They replaced juju superstition with juju superstition overlain by the more authoritative bedrock of biblical literalism. Africans with their faith healings, Koreans with their factious fundamentalism and Latin Americans with their excessive idolatry and Marian cultism, certainly they are bending the spirit of Christianity, and doing away with what little letter of the law was followed....