Matt Frei's diary: Evangelical and environmental? (BBC News)

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If the green movement truly wants to convert America it needs to convert more evangelical Christians. Let me explain.

According to a BBC News/Harris Poll, the number of Americans who worry that carbon emissions are slowly heating our planet like a lobster pot have actually declined in the last eight years by 25%.
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I interviewed a lumberjack from Wisconsin this week who virtually admitted to me that he would be in favour of carbon caps and preserving the forest he had spent a career cutting down if the climate change crowd weren't also in favour of gay marriage and abortion.
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Two years ago I went to Liberty University in Virginia, the home of the late Jerry Falwell and asked a lecture room full of students if they believed in the threat of global warming. Not a single hand went up.

I travelled up the road to the Eastern Mennonite College at Harrisonburg and asked a similar number of Christian students the same question. Almost every hand shot up.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8405108.stm




The article is worth reading just to see how the USA looks to outsiders. It is not just embarrassing, it is humiliating, however gently put.

"O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!"

(And as some Leftist Christians on DU have noted, the problem with the wingnut evangelical Christians is not that they are Christians -- it is that they are wingnuts.)