Green (and not so green) Evangelicals.In February, 86 evangelical leaders declared climate change a Christian priority and lent their support to political initiatives to fight global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. , saying "The earth's natural CLIMATE systems are resilient but not infinitely so, and human civilizations are remarkably dependent on ecological stability The word stability has a number of technical meanings in various fields Ecological Stability can take on any connotation in a continuum ranging from resilience (returning quickly to a previous state) to constancy (lack of change) to persistence (simply not going extinct). and well-being." The statement, which was launched by the Evangelical Climate Initiative The Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI) is an initiative by some American evangelical leaders and organizations designed to combat global warming. ECI's first statement, calling for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, was released on February 8, 2006 and was signed by (ChristiansandClimate.org), was signed by the presidents of 39 evangelical colleges and leaders of faith-based aid groups, such as World Vision and World Relief. A week earlier the National Association of Evangelicals The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is an agency dedicated to coordinating cooperative ministry for evangelical denominations of Protestant Christians in the United States. refused to take a stand on global warming after receiving pressure from religious conservatives--a retreat from the group's historic declaration in October 2004 that human beings did not have "a license to abuse the creation of which we are a part." The NAE nae adv. Scots 1. No. 2. Not. backed away from the issue after it received a letter from 20 right-wing religious leaders, some of them members of the "Interfaith Stewardship Alliance," demanding "that the NAE not adopt any official position on the issue of global climate change." |
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