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Climate Denial is immoral, says head of US Episcopal Church
Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church and one of the most powerful women in Christianity, said that climate change was a moral imperative akin to that of the civil rights movement. She said it was already a threat to the livelihoods and survival of people in the developing world.
It is in that sense much like the civil rights movement in this country where we are attending to the rights of all people and the rights of the earth to continue to be a flourishing place, Bishop Jefferts Schori said in an interview with the Guardian. It is certainly a moral issue in terms of the impacts on the poorest and most vulnerable around the world already.
In the same context, Jefferts Schori attached moral implications to climate denial, suggesting those who reject the underlying science of climate change were turning their backs on Gods gift of knowledge.
Episcopalians understand the life of the mind is a gift of God and to deny the best of current knowledge is not using the gifts God has given you, she said. In that sense, yes, it could be understood as a moral issue.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/24/climate-change-denial-immoral-says-head-episcopal-church
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Climate Denial is immoral, says head of US Episcopal Church (Original Post)
LongTomH
Mar 2015
OP
"A number of denominations have also joined the growing fossil fuel divestment movement"
bananas
Mar 2015
#2
I wonder when Evangelicals will understand that tax cuts for the wealthy and Big Business
stillwaiting
Mar 2015
#3
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)1. More from the same article:
Evangelical churches once seen as a conservative force were now taking up the climate cause, largely because of growing awareness of its threat to the poor.
One of the significant changes in particular has been the growing awareness and activism among the evangelical community who at least somewhat in the more distant past refused to encounter this issue, refused to deal with it, Jeffers Schori said. The major evangelical groups in this country have been much more forward in addressing this issue because they understand that it impacts the poor.
bananas
(27,509 posts)2. "A number of denominations have also joined the growing fossil fuel divestment movement"
k&r
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)3. I wonder when Evangelicals will understand that tax cuts for the wealthy and Big Business
ALSO impacts on the poorest and most vulnerable around the world, and it does so in a VERY big way.
Edited to add: Also, every Evangelical that I know in my life (and that's a lot) refuses to acknowledge Climate Change as an issue to consider or plan for. It's not true they say. So, wherever Evangelicals have become enlightened on this issue I hope it spreads here someday soon.
Colorado Vince
(99 posts)4. what can i say except
AMEN!
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)5. She's right. It is a moral issue, clearly. n/t