Enlisting Faith and Hope to Stem Climate Change
April 19, 2022
As an ecologist and evangelical Christian, Rick Lindroth wants to redirect the tendency of evangelicals to downplay climate change, the Washington Post reports. This makes him “part of a small but growing movement of people talking about climate change through the lens of hope motivated by faith.” Such efforts are vital, Forrest Clingerman and Robin Globus Veldman argue in Issues. “Religions are places where conversations happen and values emerge,” they write. Seeing religions this way “can provide policymakers, scientists, and the public with a more nuanced understanding of what communities of all kinds think, feel, and want to do about climate change.”