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In this book religious leaders and their institutions call for strong national action on global climate change. This call comes from the majority of America's religions including Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopalian, Evangelical, Quakers and Bahai. Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, provides scientific insights showing that climate change is real. The evidence is mounting all around us. The carbon dioxide in the air is increasing. This causes the air temperature to rise, and also increases the acidity of the ocean. Mountain...

This anthology describes the seriousness of climate change through a series of twenty depictions of how the world is already changing because of rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. It lists the major religious declarations about climate change and provides the spiritual, moral and ethical rationales for the statements from each of the world's major Christian and world religious organizations. Commentary is provided from a wide range of religious leaders. The book includes a spectrum of scientific leaders and organizations and their rationales for urging strong action...

Even though the Eastern Orthodox Church is widely recognized as having a deep and profound theological understanding of the world as God's creation, practice of this theology has been elusive. To address this dilemma this text provides guidance on the spiritual and physical steps that are necessary for Orthodox Christians to apply their theology to ecological issues. This book includes a special foreword by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew who introduces the challenge of greening the Church. In his commentary, he sees that the application of this book's themes can lead to the...