Opposing views points to the scary ignorance and bible-thumping to which GOP representatives in Congress are appealing in their genocidal stand against quick action on climate change.
If you have to have a biblical theology about these things, it should be the old-fashioned one that human beings are stewards of the earth and have a duty to make it flourish, not to turn it into a desolate wasteland. Leviticus 25:23-24, for instance, has “The land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.”
In contrast to irresponsible reactionaries like James Inhofe (who is in the back pocket of Mammon– I mean, Big Oil), some churches are doing the right thing and putting up solar panels on their roofs
Climate Desk did a mash-up of this bad theology and bad environment thinking:
See also this discussion at Young Turks
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