A group of over 80 evangelist leaders recently released a statement conveying what they describe as a biblically driven pledge to focus on issues of "global warming."
The group, which includes Rick Warren author of "The Purpose Driven Life," called on the government to change legislation to aim at reducing carbon dioxide emissions that allegedly add to global climate change.
The Evangelical Climate Initiative issued a statement that said, "This is God's world, and any damage that we do to God's world is an offense against God himself."
However, Paul Friessen, senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death," believes that making energy less affordable and accessible, mandatory controls (on greenhouse-gas emissions) would drive up the cost of consumer products, stifle economic growth, cost jobs and impose especially harmful effects on the earth's poorest people."