This past week has been "Earth Week." Time Magazine published a "Special Environment Issue" with a controversial altered image of the famous soldiers on Iwo Jima raising, not an American flag, but a tree. The cover reads, "How to Win the War on Global Warming." For the first time in the magazine's history, a green rather than red border frames the cover.
Inside and elsewhere, you can read and hear all the buzzwords of environmentalism: "Global warming," "Creation care," "Climate change," "Sustainability," "Alternative energy sources," "Greenhouse gases," and "Carbon emissions."
Alleged concern for an allegedly human-caused deteriorating environment that will allegedly cause catastrophic disease, hunger, and conflict around the world has become the unifying issue de force in politics, business, education, media, and religion. Mainstreamed by Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", Gore has said "Jump," and we're responding, "How far?"
"How far" indeed? Evangelical leaders are urging Christians, in statements like the Evangelical Climate Initiative, to join the fight against climate change, or as they like to phrase the movement, "creation care." "After all," they say, "God wants us to be good stewards of His creation." Watch video.
Yes, the world and the church have gone head-over-heels for environmentalism. The question is, should Christians be going with them, and if so, to what extent and at what expense?
Cal Beisner, author and National Spokesman for Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, will be on the program to help us apply a biblical worldview to environmentalism. You won't want to miss this critical issue, one that is increasingly important to understand. See you Saturday on The Christian Worldview!
For further study:
• Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far
• Environmentalism:A New Religion
• Should Christians Be Concerned About the Environment?
