Global Warming: What's God Got to do with it?/ Religion and Climate Change

The Environmental Defense Fund sent me this email. Although our class will be discussing Religion and Nature themes more in depth during the Spiritual Ecology section, this week's readings do refer to the importance of different values in environmental behaviors. Lynn White Jr. specifically details how he feels Christianity has influenced Western ecological relationships and patterns. Yet, the following offer the alternatives to which White acknowledges at the end of his essay.

What do you think about religion and environmentalism?

Read January's Personal Nature column by Dominique Browning:

(http://support.edf.org/site/R?i=kLD9CcivywIJUDMZd-sHUg)
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A number of religious leaders of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist,
and other faiths have formed a growing movement to transform society
from their pulpits by emphasizing the connection between ecology and
religion.

Their sermons inspire, educate and mobilize people with topics
including climate change, renewable energy technologies and public
policy to cut greenhouse gases.

Find out more in this month's Personal Nature column, "Religion and
Climate Change," by author and writer Dominique Browning:
http://support.edf.org/site/R?i=1wF9uLdph-yz_tSOMJL3PQ..

This doesn't mean environmentalism is turning into a religion,
Browning explains, but that religion harnesses the power of love and
faith, both of which bind us to nature, other humans and the health of
our planet and inspire us to take action when these are in danger.

"The fact is," Browning writes, "in order to succeed in
significantly altering the global course of climate change, we are
going to have to harness all the power we have, whether it is the
power of the market, the power of technology, or the power of heart
and soul."

This month's Personal Nature column by Dominique Browning takes an inspiring and
thought-provoking look at the connection between religion and climate
change:
http://support.edf.org/site/R?i=LyzZaXw-BRmhcHPwyPlxJg

We hope you enjoy.

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Environmental Defense Fund

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