The Power of Conscience, an Advance in Consciousness

What is holding us back in our actions and attitudes toward environmental protection, the climate emergency, and ecojustice? Why are many Christians stuck in conventional attitudes and theologies that don’t connect with the climate crisis? Why is climate denial still so widespread?

Such questions demand attention. The future of life itself is at stake. Will the next climate disaster—flood, fire, drought—finally be the one that awakens us to the scale of action needed? Is our materialist lifestyle so precious to us that “the American way of life is not up for negotiation,” as George H. W. Bush said in 1992 to delegates from more than 100 nations at the first U.N. Earth Summit conference in Rio?

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