Trump can ignore climate crisis; he won't be here for it
By Froma Harrop / Creators.com
May we talk about spiritual matters? “In the beginning,” the Bible opens, “God created the heavens and the earth.” Several lines down, God says, let humankind “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
We humans were given stewardship of earth, but global warming is remaking the world beneath us. We are the cause, but we still have the power to stop or at least greatly slow the desecration of what was placed in our care.
I’ve written at length about the economic damage global warming can inflict, knowing that money arguments often get more traction than ethical ones. But the moral urgency of this crisis deserves far more attention than it receives. However we define conscience, within traditional religion or outside it, protecting the environment for future generations is a moral imperative.
In the world of Donald Trump, dollars outrank soul. His Environmental Protection Agency has just revoked the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which allows the government to regulate planet-warming pollution. In sum, he has just taken the United States out of the race to preserve the Creation.
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