Post-traumatic growth has been noted as a key driver in changing the beliefs an individual holds.

Given that climate change will affect everyone, does it provide us the opportunity to come to a better shared understanding as a species?

Perhaps one in which we all come to remove faith as a valid way of coming to knowledge and accommodating new experiences into that body of knowledge.

I'm high right now in case it's not obvious.

@stuartblair I don't know about removing faith, per se, how about learning how to incorporate scientific knowledge into the underpinnings.
Not enough people know how to merge the two without freaking out.

*10 points for "post traumatic growth"

@mach Albeit in a single direction of travel, I think this is what's already happening.

If you look at human progress from the time of the Copernican Revolution and continuing into to empiricism and the scientific method, we've found better explanatory models to refine our knowledge than have been provided by faith. As we understand mechanisms, we develop models with better predictive power and don't need to rely upon supernatural explanations for observed phenomena.

@mach I think this is why nowadays we begin addressing strange personal behaviors as symptoms of mental illness rather than of demonic possession.

We're gradually pushing back the boundaries of our need for a god to exist at all.