climate change

Politics/LawNovember 9, 2011

Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben

By Peter Laarman

Author/activist Bill McKibben led this past weekend’s encirclement of the White House urging the the Obama Administration to block construction of a 1,700-mile pipeline to transport tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf. As McKibben savored a new protest-triggered State Department inquiry into a too-cozy environmental review process related to the pipeline, contributing editor Peter Laarman caught up with him on some religious dimensions of climate-change activism.

UncategorizedSeptember 8, 2011

Perry’s Galileo Moment

By Sarah Posner

Rejecting science meant to appeal to religious voters who believe in biblical inerrancy.

UncategorizedJune 24, 2011

The Real Reasons Why Evangelical Embrace of Environmentalism Lags

By Sarah Posner

And why the GOP presidential hopefuls are running scared from cap and trade.

(A)theologiesMay 23, 2011

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

Many of these weather events actually are a kind of “punishment”—not in the conservative-theological sense of tit-for-tat justice meted out by an Abusive Father on High, but in the more progressive-theological sense of unforeseen consequences of reckless human actions. Climate scientists have said for years that global climate change will lead to increased severe weather events, and now they appear to be here; along with droughts and poor harvests caused by shifting climatic belts. On a planetary basis, we are reaping what we have sown for two hundred years.

(A)theologiesApril 28, 2011

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

Twilight wars in the Middle East, Japan’s nuclear catastrophe, Deepwater Horizon, worldwide crop failures, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary.

UncategorizedMarch 14, 2011