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TechnoratiHe argued that government mandates to reduce carbon dioxide emission “would do more harm then good.”
“Because energy is an essential component of economic production, reducing its use and driving up its costs will slow economic development in poor countries, reduce overall productivity and increase costs of all goods including the food, clothing, shelter, and other goods most essential to the poor,” Beisner said.
Religious communities have increasingly become involved in the global warming debate – most notably at an event earlier this year when prominent evangelicals including the National Association of Evangelicals’ vice president for governmental affairs, the Rev. Richard Cizik, joined forces with top scientists to raise awareness and advocate for stronger action on climate change.
In March, soon after the event, however, more than a dozen leading evangelical leaders such as Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Gary Bauer of Coalitions for America filed a complaint to the NAE board urging it to take action against its Cizik for his global warming advocacy.
While NAE’s president, the Rev. Leith Anderson, said that the board did not specifically respond to the letter during its bi-annual meeting in March, it did reaffirm a 2004 paper that listed creation care as an evangelical responsibility.
The 2004 paper, “For the Health of the Nations,” detailed seven areas of civic responsibilities of evangelicals: sanctity of life, nurturing the family, compassion for the poor, religious freedom, human rights, inhibiting violence, and creation care.
