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    Commentary: How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans’ apathy about climate change

    by Bart D. Ehrman, Los Angeles Times May 05, 2023 4 minutes
    Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during the presentation the new Climate TRACE platform, a highly detailed facility-level global inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, at the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on Nov. 9, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

    Christian theology and global politics can make strange bedfellows. Consider the intimate relationship between fundamentalist expectations of Jesus’ return and market-driven disregard for the environment.

    The affair became public back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan’s newly minted Interior secretary, James Watt — once known for suing the department he went on to lead — was testifying before a House committee. Watt was asked whether he was committed to “save some of our resources … for our children?”

    “That is the delicate balance the secretary of the Interior must have,” the secretary affirmed, “to be steward for the natural resources for this generation as well as future generations.”

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