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May 14, 2007
U.S. evangelical approaches to climate change
But just as America is bitterly divided on the issue of climate change, so is the evangelical movement.
At Eastern Mennonite University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, concern about the environment is so high that the college has employed a full-time recycling officer and assistant.
Jonathan Lantz-Trisse, who travels around campus by bicycle with a trailer of recycling in tow, has been monitoring the efforts of staff and students to recycle their waste.
"The students are actually really good recyclers," he says. "Sometimes I think the challenge is getting the faculty and staff to recycle - I think the younger generations have grown up with it and it comes more naturally."
An address by the university's president, Loren Swartzendruber, gives a clue that here, too, it is the voice at the top that sets the tone for the university.
"There is a massive and mounting body of scientific evidence that global warming is a reality," he tells the gathered congregation.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Evangelicals split on global warming
Posted by thdyck on May 14, 2007
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