Embedded in this drama is the barely hidden power game. "If you don't listen to me" (as a human being) "then you will have to listen to me now" (as a deity). And if you don't condone my anger then you will suffer my sacred wrath.

In fact, Doomers need the apathy and resistance of the broader public to bring about the transformative anger that makes them a deity and the world a better place. Both transformative aspects are necessary. It's not simply about becoming a deity or about "changing the world".

It is that in them becoming a deity the world simultaneously changes as well. It is this double change that is at stake for them (although they only talk about the climate, not their wish to become God).

People always loved to play God -- or watch others play God. It's a drama that come to the top from time to time. It needs a stage, it needs an apocalyptic setting. Otherwise no sacred wrath, no transmutation, no rapture.

We miss what may count as appropriate solutions for climate change if we ignore those archaic and atavist components the Doomers bring forth from the past to the present. The role of the Doomers is not to provide solutions but to cement inevitability.

Otherwise we might be incapable to accept the helping hand of fate, the gods, and: hope. The Doomers create an ego drama out of climate change in order for us to comprehend that climate change is not about ego (or technical fixes, for that matter) but hope and giving in.

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