Keeping Christians cool.More than 1,500 young evangelicals from across the U.S. signed a statement in November promising to reduce their personal use of fossil fuels fossil fuel: see energy, sources of; fuel. fossil fuel Any of a class of materials of biologic origin occurring within the Earth's crust that can be used as a source of energy. Fossil fuels include coal, petroleum, and natural gas. and urged the government to back legislation that does the same. The statement, called "Cooling Our Future," follows 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 signed by more than 85 evangelical leaders last February. That initiative attributed most climate change to human activities, acknowledged that the poor would be hit hardest by climate change, and cited the biblical responsibility to care for God's creation. Students from 83 state and private colleges and universities (35 of them evangelical) sent letters to President Bush and members of Congress urging them to make 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. a political priority and to support new measures to fight climate change. "We are your children and from us will come your children's children," they wrote in the letter. "We ask you to bless bless tr.v. blessed or blest , bless·ing, bless·es 1. To make holy by religious rite; sanctify. 2. To make the sign of the cross over so as to sanctify. 3. To invoke divine favor upon. our future with wise actions today." |
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