Over the last couple of weeks, we have talked about the remarkable coalition between big corporations and environmental groups that forms the backbone of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership. Both groups have taken a leading role in the discussion about the best way to cap carbon emissions.
Another group, however, has also been actively involved in the discussion – evangelical Christians. Just as with business leaders, these aren’t exactly the type of people that one would expect to see allied with large, generally Democratic-leaning (and often secular) environmental groups. But the need for action on this issue has caused a significant number of Christian groups (including the Salvation Army and the heads of many evangelical colleges and universities) and prominent ministers like Rick Warren, to start looking for solutions.
And while business groups look at a carbon cap as a way to help the economy and their own bottom lines, Christians see it as a moral issue – that we have a stewardship responsibility to care for God’s creation. This is a powerful argument not only among Christians, but among voters in general. For example, we conducted a survey in South Carolina which found that two-thirds of voters find this stewardship argument to be a very persuasive reason to support capping carbon emissions.
Support from groups like the Evangelical Climate Initiative adds even more credibility to the diverse, and growing, coalition of Americans who support action on this issue.
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May 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Environmentalists and big corporations banding together? Talk about an unholy alliance. Two groups whose true aim is one world government join forces over a phony issue. Talk about conspiracy. The Evangelical Christians, the same people who support Zionism and our ruinous foreign policy in the Mid-east? Now its a moral issue and we have a stewardship argument? All this goes to show the weakness of the scientific (and I use the term lightly) argument for global warming and points out the true agenda of the global warming proponents which is one world government at the expense of the United States.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Wow, Jim. I hope you’re recycling the tin foil from your helmets!
June 5th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
There is one place that conservatives, liberals, democrat and republicans may find common ground– in there own back yard. Catskill Mountainkeeper is a new group that is dedicated to giving the tools to local people (in this case the Catskill region in New York State) to decide the future of there own back yard. We urge our members to go to town planning board meetings and find out what is being proposed and to ask the pertinent questions.
Isn’t it true that wise growth is the key to our future and short sighted developments will impede prorgress?
How big? Why? Who? At what cost to the tax payers? Who benefits? Whats the long term effects?
These are questions that every citizen has the right to ask but are often too cautious to ask if they feel alone. Our model is based on the premise that the best steward of the environment are the local people who live in it day by day. Visit http://catskillmountainkeeper.org to see an example of how non partisan organizations can bring people to keep America clean, safe and economically vibrant.