We are entering a most critical period in human history in which almost the whole of our species will be adversely affected and will need to combine efforts in order to keep environmental changes within tolerable limits.

The majority of people of the world are divided into five or six major religions and many more minor religions and sub-groups. This has remained relatively unchanged for many centuries and it would be unreasonable to think that any one religion would ever gulvanise the vast majority of humankind into a coherent whole. Because of the polarising effect of this split and the suspicion and often intolerence felt by people in one religion for another, and because there is no provable foundation for a belief in God, it would seem that the only way of ever unifying and harmonising the world's populations would be through large-scale secularism or non-religion.

If it is true that impending ecological disaster will engulf the Earth unless enormous reductions are made to the ever-increasing imbalance humankind is causing to the natural environment; and if it is true that all the major religions are founded on false belief, ie: the existance of an imagined deity, then a form of environmental agnosticism would be the only system based on reality which addresses the worldwide problems of disharmony and destruction.

More and more people are naturally tending to become environmentally aware in their approach to life. Ever increasing numbers of people are becoming atheistical in their personal beliefs. Earthism, Green Agnosticism, Green Atheism, and Green Humanism are names which can accurately describe this type of positive and growing combined world-view.