Abstract
It is well-known that many traditional, community-based practices across Pacific Island states embody a harmonious interrelationship between Indigenous/traditional knowledges and sustainability. Yet not only are these traditional forms of community practice under threat from dominant modernist developmental narratives but also from new faith-based systems. Such forms of missionary and colonial intrusions have had lasting impacts across the Pacific but these are not over. Today we are witnessing the rapid rise of Evangelicalism across the Pacific that is supplanting older established Christian doctrines and traditional spiritual practices with eschatological and rewards-based faiths. These are in turn challenging some of the key tenets of sustainability and climate action within these traditional communities and how they represent themselves internationally. This article traces how the rise of Evangelicalism is eroding traditional spiritual practices involving a harmonious cooperation with nature, exemplified in the replacement of self-determination as a universal claim of all peoples with one that is based on a particular group of states only.