Scientists, Evangelicals Join Forces on Environment
Several U.S. scientists and evangelical Christian leaders have come together to make a joint effort to protect the environment.
Harvard Medical School
The group, organized under the aegis of the National Association of Evangelicals and the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, proposes to hold meetings with Congressional leaders from both parties to inform them about its efforts and to convince them to initiate action on environmental issues.
The coalition has come out with an Urgent Call to Action statement signed by 28 noted scientists and evangelical leaders calling for fundamental change in values, lifestyles and public policies required to address the worsening problems affecting the environment before it is too late.
The statement has been sent to President George Bush, House speaker Nancy Pelosi, bipartisan congressional leaders and others, the leaders of the group said at a news conference Wednesday. They said they have joined forces concerned over the human-caused threats to creation, including climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, species extinction, spread of diseases and other threats to the well-being of the society.
One of the objectives of the group will be to advance the dialogue and influence policy regarding global warming. It will also expand the collaboration and encourage action from all sectors of the society. Scientists and evangelicals share a deep moral commitment to preserve the precious gift of air and water we have all been given, said Dr Eric Chivian, Nobel laureate and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, at the news conference
Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals said science and religion will cooperate, minimizing their differences about how Creation got started, to work together to reverse its degradation.
“We will not allow it to be progressively destroyed by human folly,” he said.
[via EarthTimes]
