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Evangelicals finally join the climate

Hundreds of millions of environmentalists will think "it's about time" when they hear more evangelical Christians are becoming serious about tackling quatrefoil necklace van cleef imitation climate change. Congress, not to mention in political spheres in Canada.

However, a Canadian evangelical Christian and climate scientist, educated at the University of Toronto, is challenging the way North America's influential evangelicals think about the phenomenon causing extreme weather, rising oceans, drought and the melting of glaciers.

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, whom Time magazine named one of its 100 most influential people, spoke fake van cleef malachite necklace at SFU and Vancouver's Chan Centre this week, including in a dialogue with the Suzuki Foundation's Peter Robinson and former Reform party leader Preston Manning (a fellow evangelical).

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Hayhoe grew up largely in Eastern Canada never knowing a person who didn't believe climate change was a human made problem. So she had a shock when she married American professor pastor Andrew Farley, and discovered he believed climate change was a hoax.

Awkward. But over the years the couple worked it out. And they eventually co wrote a book, A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith Based Decisions.

She now heads the Climate Change Center at Texas Tech University and has become the leading evangelical voice against human made climate change.

It's mainly because Hayhoe is evangelical that she's gaining a lot of media attention. The ecology movement has, since the 1970s, had no shortage of advocates.

Last month, Pope Francis also pumped up the volume on Roman Catholicism's battle against climate change.

Francis brought scientists to the Vatican to denounce exploitation of the Earth as an evil and urge action on greenhouse gases. to convince climate change skeptic Catholics, like Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush, to wake up and smell the fumes.

Many desperately hope people like the pope and Hayhoe will make a dent in the way North America's large conservative Christian population has generally opposed steps to reduce carbon use and to switch to cleaner energy. evangelicals did not believe humans are causing the warming of the Earth. evangelicals. Agriculture Council, is an evangelical Christian who doesn't think about global warming. He once told me he is convinced God will save all born again believers from oblivion.

"One day I'm going to be in heaven, so I don't worry about climate change at all."

Hayhoe, despite her friendly nature, is tough enough to take on such evangelicals about their theological and economic beliefs. That includes Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a member of the evangelical Alliance Church of Canada, and his federal caucus of which half are conservative Christians.

In an interview with Canada's Salvation Army magazine, Hayhoe took apart Harper's statement that "no country is going to take actions (against climate change) that are going to deliberately destroy jobs and growth in their country."

Harper, Hayhoe says, "sets up an implicit straw man that doing something about climate change and renewable energy costs jobs.

"And that's just tax dollars. We're not even talking human life here," Hayhoe said. to join European countries that are transitioning off fossil fuels.

Hayhoe has her work cut out in her country of origin, however. Climate Action Network Europe ranked Canada among the worst of 58 countries in the industrialized world for its failure to combat climate change.

Hayhoe sees a big part of her task van cleef alhambra necklace copy as confronting people's skewed understandings of God.

Evangelicals constantly tell her that God has absolute power, including to usher in an apocalypse, which they believe eclipses anything that humanity could do to the planet.

So Hayhoe counters with scriptures stating that while God created the Earth, Christians have to play an active role as its stewards, as protectors of the Earth, not just its exploiters.

By in effect maintaining humans need to work as "co creators" with God, Hayhoe is hardly being theologically radical. Her views echo long held convictions of mainstream Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Jews, not to mention a battalion of spiritual but not religious environmentalists.

Sallie McFague, a Vancouver School of Theology eco theologian, has long taught that, despite what some Christians believe, God is not a dictator. Instead, McFague says God is a divine lure inviting everything in the universe towards creativity and wholeness.

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