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A few posts of interest (at least to me):

Kevin DeYoung gives us a few building blocks for building a wise foundation of evangelical environmental stewardship.

  1. We must distinguish between theological principles and prudential judgments.
  2. People matter most.
  3. People are producers, not just polluters.

Michael Horton reminds us that God works through means:

Christians aren’t free to believe whatever they want about the Bible and its teachings. However, believers with the same commitments to Scripture and its teachings will differ on their interpretation of the data and the best agenda. Nevertheless, I still hear some conservative Christians say that God’s sovereignty means that the world can’t be destroyed; humans can’t ruin it. Therefore, never mind global warming.

That’s not just bad politics, in my view, but bad theology. God always works through means. He is sovereign, but I still think I should take a bath. He’s not going to take one for me.

Jim Manzi reminds conservatives like me that just because something is popular, “conservative,” and contra global warming doesn’t mean that it’s careful. He discusses Mark Levin’s bestselling Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto:

He goes on to cite a petition “rejecting the theory of human-caused global warming” sponsored by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine and signed by more than 31,000 scientists. There are a few problems with this survey that Levin doesn’t mention. More than 20,000 of these “scientists” lack PhDs in any field. There was very little quality control: At least one person signed it as Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.  Scientific American did the hard work of actually contacting a sample of individual signatories, and estimated that there are about 200 climate scientists who agree with the statement in the petition among the signatories. And most important by far, the text of the petition is not close to Levin’s claim of rejecting the notion of man-made global warming. . . .

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