[please type] 2. Evangelicals are one of the most resistent groups to accepting
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2. Evangelicals are one of the most resistent groups to accepting climate change in the United States. They also have a very large influence on American politics and society.
a) Light provided a number of reasons why evangelicals are generally opposed to accepting climate change. Explain two of them. (1 pt)
b) What is environmetal stewardship in the religious context? How is it relevant to this coversation? (1 pt)
c) Watch a youtube video: Katharine Hayhoe: Climate Change Evangelist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1eGJLqxxKQ). Why would church goers ask her husband (pastor) and not her (atmospheric scientist) about climate change science? (1 pt)
d) How might we engage those evangelicals, who are on the fence about climate change, to accept that it is real? (1 pt)
Explanation / Answer
a) First, evangelicals tend to be socially and politically conservative, and climate change is among the many issues that have become politically polarized in America. Second, there is sometimes a perceived conflict between science and religion, as Christians distrust what they perceive as scientists’ “moral agenda” on issues like evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.
b) To understand the cause of climate change, and that human actions play a major role, such reports tend to lead to finger pointing at climate change deniers and skeptics, who are seen as obstacles to progress on important policy decisions for improving the climate. Such finger pointing is sometimes directed at religious people, especially evangelical Christians who, either because of their theology or political conservatism, are taken to make up much of these deniers and skeptics.
c) There is percieved conflict between science and faith, its littile bit like coming out closest admitting people asking questions to her husband who us pastor in evangelicals church.People believe pastor knows everything, god will tell to them.
d) However, a majority of evangelicals continue to reject the reality of human-caused climate change, and there hasn’t been research quantifying the effectiveness of these evangelical climate leadership efforts.
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