86 Evangelical Leaders Back Efforts to Stop Global Warming
Posted on February 8, 2006
The BBC reports that a group of 86 evangelical Christian leaders, including Purpose-Driven Life author Rick Warren, have published a newspaper advertisement that says saving Earth from global warming is a legitimate and important concern.
The newspaper advertisement - signed by mega-church pastors like Rick Warren, author of the bestseller The Purpose-Driven Life, heads of Christian colleges and missionary organisations - puts saving "God's green earth" on a par with traditional evangelical concerns like abortion and gay marriage.It is good to see some evangelical Christians splitting with President Bush and others in the White House who continue to ignore the scientific community. The Bush adminstration has edited official climate change reports to downplay global warming and ignored continuous warnings from scientists."With God's help global warming can be stopped for our kids, our world and our Lord," the advert says.
And it calls on Congress to do more to encourage companies to reduce carbon emissions, advocating a market-based approach to curb emissions through a cap-and-trade bill.
The evangelists who have signed up for the campaign do not include all of those most closely associated with the White House.
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