|
Articles
- Appeal Letter to the National Association of Evangelicals on the Issue of Global Warming
Leading evangelicals ask NAE to refrain from taking a position on climate change issue
(January 31, 2006)
We respectfully request...that the NAE not adopt any official position on the issue of global climate change. Global warming is not a consensus issue, and our love for the Creator and respect for
His creation does not require us to take a position.
We are evangelicals and we care about God’s creation. However, we believe there should be room for Bible-believing evangelicals to disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue. CA
- An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy
(November 21, 2005)
Few issues have permeated or fueled public debate like the topic of global warming.... There is [a new] dynamic to this topic that is beginning to receive increasing attention – namely, the emerging assessment of the moral and religious implications of climate change policy. CA
- Get Out Your Bed Nets
We must let Africans fight mosquitoes and disease the same way we do: with pesticides
(October 31, 2005)
These are life-or-death decisions for malaria-endemic countries. They have the right to make decisions based on science and effective use of resources, without fear of reprisals. America would never tell hurricane survivors they must rely on bed nets and anti-malaria drugs that are in critically short supply, or simply don’t work. Telling Africans to do so violates their most basic human rights. CA
- No Sure Bet: Two Replies to Andy Crouch’s “Environmental Wager”
(October 31, 2005)
The August 2005 issue of Christianity Today (vol. 49, no. 8, p. 66) carried an alarmist piece about global warming by Andy Crouch titled ”Environmental Wager” that condemned critics of global warming alarmism and prescribed endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce CO2 emissions and mitigate global warming as a new variation on Pascal’s Wager that is so obviously the right thing to do that anybody who objects must be a cretin. The article generated critical responses from two founders of the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance.
The tone of Andy Crouch’s column, “Environmental… CA
- How Will We Feed Africa?
(October 31, 2005)
Environmental activists are spending millions of dollars in their campaign to ban genetically modified foods, as millions of Africans starve. These activists, who must believe that ideology is a good substitute for bread on the table, need to understand some simple truths. CA
|
