A Christian response to climate change
Faith has a role in tackling the problems of the earth, says Mark Dowd
When a self-declared non-believer suggests that we may need faith and belief in God in our efforts to combat global warming, it makes me grateful that we’re being spared another tirade from Richard Dawkins, the high priest of the ‘new atheists’. Robert May (an honorary fellow of the British Science Association) posited the idea that belief in the divine was a useful tool in motivating people to change their behaviour. Rather too much of what he said seemed to take refuge in scaring people with hellfire if they didn’t change their lightbulbs, stop flying and insulate their houses right away, but it got the media hooked: religion and climate change?
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