A number of local campaigning and awareness-raising organisations working on climate change have recently got together to form the Oxfordshire Climate Alliance, with the aim of coordinating their efforts in areas of mutual concern. I’m pleased to report that two Christian groups, Sage and Christian Concern for One World, are playing an active part in this collaboration, echoing the roles of a number of national faith-based groups in the ‘I Count’ campaign (see www.icount.org.UK).
Some Christians may be wary of churches or Christian organisations being too closely associated with secular groups with whom they may have serious differences of opinion on some issues. However, if the remit of the collaboration is
sufficiently clear to everyone involved, the advantages of working together can be well worth it. Climate change is such an enormous and urgent challenge, that we need to work with anyone who shares our concern, even if their spirituality or motivation is somewhat different from our own.
Combining forces means we are more likely to succeed, but also has the additional benefit of displaying a practical Christian perspective to those we are working with.
Karl Wallendszus is a member of Sage,
Despite everything the IPCC claims (and its small print is not nearly as "certain" as the gloss put on it)there is as yet no proof that the global warming which has been in progress for ten thousand years since the last age will get any more severe; no proof that the catastrophic climate changes, floods and other plagues the proponents flawed mathematical models predict will occur;and certainly no proof at all that the "man-made" effect on the climate (if there is one at all) is significacnt.
"Climate Change" has stepped into the vacuum left by a Church which has ceased to preach religion and wants instead to become just another pressure group. It has no more substance than animism or witchcraft - but it sounds credible and comforts people eager to believe in something.
The people's need for belief is a signal to the Church to get back to its proper job
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