Five hundred years is way off. More like five years. I've been saying your view a long time. Why take care of your house if you believe it's going to be destroyed?

It is no accident that the Abrahamic religions all began in a region of the Middle East, where nature was at its most bleak and hostile, and therefore only human culture was seen as benign. Making human culture, which in those days and places meant, paternal authoritarian culture, all powerful.

The other reason why religious people do not care about the environment, is simply because, they don't care, full stop. Religion is essentially a selfish pursuit, 'my' relationship with god, 'my' church, 'my' salvation, 'my' immortality and 'my' spiritual life, it therefore only attracts selfish and shallow people, there may be exceptions but not generally.

Back I bought into the bs of religion I cared about the planet. I didn't know or believe that Jesus was coming back in my lifetime.