We don't need to be on board with the extreme actions of characters in First Reformed and The Overstory to feel some empathy for the desperation that drives them.
They're also pieces of work that suggest that living as though nothing is going to change is its own form of delusion, or at least its own act of unquestioning faith that things will sort themselves out. That's explicit in, in which the crisis of belief Ernst is already experiencing entwines with his crisis of environmental despair."Can God forgive us? For what we have done to this world?" Michael asks him.
that a similarly intense epiphany — an encounter with a redwood he described as a “religious conversion” — led to him to start paying closer attention to trees, realizing that he’s “been blind to these amazing creatures all the time.”is intentionally claustrophobic, sprawling from the near extinction of the American chestnut tree, due to imported blight at the turn of the 20th century, through to the creation of an MMORPG by an Indian American computer prodigy.
. Joel, who describes himself as, unlike Ernst, living"in the real world," counters by asking how they can know the will of God:"And what if this is His plan? What if we can’t see it?", the urge toward ecoterrorism is not born out of an ecstatic connection to nature, but out of suicidal anguish — as Ernst tells Michael,"If humankind can't overcome its immediate interest enough to ensure its own survival, then you're right, the only rational response is despair.
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