Evangelicals Blahblah Climate Blahblahblah- Zero Evidence Of Changes In Voting Behavior

[hatrack]

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A different Pew poll in 2016 found that 81 percent of evangelicals and born-again Christians voted for President Donald Trump. Though, in large part, that trend could be attributed to his stance on abortion and gun control, he also used his campaign to tap into a long tradition of Republican antipathy to environmental issues. And since taking up office, he has pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.

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Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical, atmospheric scientist and political science professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, also says she sees attitudes changing. She says this could have something to do with certain solutions proving business-friendly. "There's been a massive expansion of clean energy across the middle of the country. We have 30,000 jobs in Texas with solar energy," she said.

"Very conservative farmers, who would rather cut off their arms than let the government impose regulations on carbon emissions, now have wind turbines on their land. And a check arrives in the mail. So they're like, 'oh, ok, there's no problem with that.'"

But David Konisky, associate professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, says he sees no sign of evangelicals budging on climate policy. On the contrary. "My analysis of US Gallup public opinion polls does not indicate any widespread 'greening of Christianity' among evangelical Protestants or other Christian denominations," he said in an interview with DW. "Over the time period I studied (around 2000-2015), there is evidence of declining levels of environmental concern."

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https://www.dw.com/en/god-and-the-earth-evangelical-take-on-climate-change/a-47781433

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I don't know how interpolating Gallup polls tells us anything, but...

it drives me nuts how the concept of "stewardship of God's realm" got lost.

If one is to believe in God, then believe in God-- not just the easy or profitable parts.

[GeorgeGist]

2. No one does better at exposing the con ...

than evangelicals and born-again Christians.

[safeinOhio]

3. Evangelical Thinking is not

Critical thinking.

[hatrack]

4. For that matter, it doesn't quite approach "thinking" . . . .

.

[mountain grammy]

5. My evangelical sister in law

Grew up in the Permian Basin and loves the smell of gas in the air..she has asthma, as do all her kids and grandkids, along with other pollution related respiratory ills. No connection. God’s will.

[hatrack]

6. (Bangs head on desk)