To Fight Climate Despair, This Christian Ecologist Says Science Isn’t Enough

Sarah Pulliam Bailey of The Washington Post profiles Rick Lindroth, an evangelical ecologist who is advocating for a faith-based approach to fight climate change. Lindroth pushes back against the prevailing evangelical narrative that climate protection is unnecessary because the world is only a temporary dwelling on the road to heaven. Pulliam Bailey writes, “Christians, he believes, are called to love what God loves and to care for what he cares for because creation’s purpose is to bring praise to God.”

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