Re: [asa] Creation Care

On 1/26/07, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Christians believe things not in absence of the evidence but in the
> very teeth of it.*
>
> I think you're projecting problems concerning origins onto global
> warming. The fact is that evangelicals have been remarkable in their
> acceptance of global warming as a real problem. If the climate scientists
> aren't convincing the public, it isn't the Christians' fault.
>

Let me be more precise here. SOME evangelicals that choose to deny global
warming is real and not those who might be suspicious of overarching
"solutions" are what I am aiming at here. I would be ecstatic if the
evangelical community would as a whole support what the President proposed
in the SotU. Some may grouse that it is not enough but it is a good start.

Rolling up multiple comments. I agree with you concerning a carbon tax vs.
cap and trade. Jim Hansen's take of a slowly ratcheting tax also makes sense
so that we don't destroy the economy in order to save the planet. The last
few years show that our economy can handle slowly increasing fuel costs.
Large price shocks would be a different story, however. Slow changes also
fit well into market-based R&D fixes to the problem.

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Received on Fri Jan 26 13:34:15 2007