The National Association of Evangelicals plans to release a statement calling for mandatory greenhouse gas controls. The statement will be signed by over 35 evangelical leaders from across the US. The evangelicals believe there is a moral obligation to preserve the Earth.
It will be very interesting to see if such a statement causes any change in Bush's stance on climate change. Bush will be caught between his conservative base, which based on this news is pushing for climate change legislation, and his industry base which has opposed such legislation. I would think the conservative base holds more votes than a few industry lobbyists. I hope that means Bush will choose to go along with the evangelicals and support climate change legislation.
I always thought it was weird that saying the environment was considered a liberal idea. The word conservation is the same root as conservative, so by definition environmental conservation is a conservative idea. Saving the environment is resisting change. It is preserving the environment in its original state. That is a conservative idea. Maybe the conservatives have finally figured this out and the liberals and conservatives will now agree and we'll make some progress. We can only hope.
Read the article at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network
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