Essay by Eric Worrall
“… The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking … and religion is fundamental to achieving that. …”
Why religion is fundamental to addressing climate change
Published: February 25, 2025 12.25am AEDT
Hanane Benadi
Research Officer, Religion and Global Society, London School of Economics and Political Science…
Building a global response to the climate crisis requires us to learn about the many ways people make sense of climate change and learn to live with its consequences. And for most of the world’s population, a purely scientific framing is unhelpful.
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With my team from the LSE Religion and Global Society research unit, I ran a climate change and religion workshop in Cairo with Muslim and Christian female and male faith leaders. Many of the 30 participants explained they felt frustrated that the climate science lens dominates.
One member of a faith-based organisation told me during an interview after the workshop that: “We are often approached by western organisations and research institutions to collaborate. However, when we ask about the nature of these collaborations, it is often reduced to our logo and a couple of statements that tell people that they should care about climate change.”
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As Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “Science is meaningless because it has no answer to the only questions that matter to us: ‘What should we do and how shall we live?‘” The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking, new ways of perceiving reality, and religion is fundamental to achieving that.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/why-religion-is-fundamental-to-addressing-climate-change-248074
One thing I really like about the US Christians is their tolerance. Providing someone lives a decent life, there is room in the USA for everyone to find their own path.
But this advancing nexus between climate and religion in my opinion represents a descent back into Dark Ages thinking, in which oppressive religious figures dictated every aspect of people’s lives.
In a free society you can question religion, and you can question science. But when science becomes an apocalyptic end of world religion, questioning is heresy and blasphemy. And we’ve all seen what happens to people who question, when religious leaders assume the mantle of scientific authority.
The Conversation is such an ironic name, a forum that explicitly bans any comment contrary to the main stream climate dogma can hardly be termed a “conversation” of any sort. In reality, it should be called “The Sermon” as it is merely a dictation of the edicts of the cult of Scientism. That its name is effectively the opposite of its reality is both Orwellian and unsurprising. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing.
A new religion that will bring you to your knees, God’s a computer model if you please.
An interesting trait of a pendulum is that when you push it further it becomes harder and harder to push and then it swings the other way. I believe we are seeing this pendulum in action. The populace was pushed too far and they are now pushing back. Inter
But this advancing nexus between climate and religion in my opinion represents a descent back into Dark Ages thinking, in which oppressive religious figures dictated every aspect of people’s lives.
The thing that worries me is the way in which some people simply distort history to advance their own agenda.
“Oppressive religious figures”? Do tell us who they were.
“Every aspect of people’s lives”? I’m not aware of any attempt by religious figures at any time to prescribe the best way to cook food or harvest crops or make clothes or make a wagon. or ride a horse.
When was this “Dark Ages” supposed to have occured?
But what I do know is that during the medieval period people would have looked at you rather strangely if you had suggested that a man might become a woman. But I suppose that that was just “Dark Age thinking”. Thank goodness we nowadays know better than those poor, ignorant Dark Age people.