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To: neolib who wrote (282948)	11/15/2015 10:48:24 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541759

"religion is one of the biggest impediments to dealing with climate change" Religion is also one of the greatest motivators to deal with it. Pope’s call for action on climate change has shifted US views newscientist.com

To: neolib who wrote (282948)	11/16/2015 5:55:08 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 541759

That is only some "religious" nutters. Others have the view that God put the world in human hands to take care of and that it is our responsibility to protect the earth. All conservative religious individuals KNOW that the weather (they don't know the difference between weather and climate!) is the domain of God, and when man is so impudent that he thinks he either affects the weather or even worse, can control the weather, it is the same sin as those wicked people who built the Tower of Babel were engaged in: Trying to be Gods! I have heard the above "argument" -- that humans are so puny that it is just arrogant of us to believe that we can affect something so grand as the atmosphere--given not by "religious" people, but by fossil fuel lovers. It is a crazy argument, just another rationalization by people who haven't actually read anything and just reflexively oppose the very idea that humans might affect the climate.