Environmentalism's Appropriation of Christianity

“The ecological reformation of Christianity,” according to one scholar, “may be one of the most significant, though least noted events of this age.” (1) The environmental movement has conducted a 50 year campaign to appropriate the world’s Christian Churches. This is a top-down affair involving the recruitment of key clerics, theologians, Archbishops, Patriarchs and Popes. The stakes are huge. Churches claim 2 billion followers and assets worth trillions (US$). The reformation is partly complete. While Churches now promote Ecology they have yet to convert most Christians into green consumers, activists and voters.

We Allegedly Need a Global Carbon Tax - WSJ.com - RALPH NADER and TOBY HEAPS

If President Obama hits the ground running fast in the direction of a global carbon tax, he can usher in a new dawn that might finally make peace between man and climate.
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Mr. Nader is a consumer advocate and three-time presidential candidate. Toby Heaps is the coordinator of Option 13, a campaign to help broker a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that includes all major nations.