But will they vote green?

I watched Bill Moyer's, "Is God Green" the other night. In between then and now I've taken a few jogs on the beach and can report that I couldn't find a 10 foot stretch of shoreline without a piece of plastic trash, washed up from a recent storm. A mile south the tide pools that teemed with life and fascinated me as a child are all but gone. I'll never be able to show these to my children and no late conversion of opinion will ever change that.
While it's encouraging to know that 63% of Evangelical Christians now believe that climate change is real, somehow I think that the other 37% represents the real danger. This is where the power hungry, corrupt and unprincipled remain. They hold on to their beliefs for far different reasons than the ones who saw fit to change sides.
Here you will find people who mine the Sciptures for what serves their needs and absolve themselves of any accountability in the name of Jesus. This is where arrogance confuses being closer to God with being God-like.
To think that there are people who believe that doing anything to slow down the process of fouling the earth is interfering with the will of God, is incomprehensible for me. We hear Senators saying, "global warming is the greatest hoax in history" and a young recently converted environmentalist Christian saying to the effect that she always thought "they" took care of the environment and we didn't. They being ''the tree hugger's-the liberals." Or the other convert saying that "he never made that connection between the Creator and Creation before. This is but a sample of the mind boggling statements made in this program.
I know that it will perhaps never be perfectly clear whether or not climate change is man made. Call me crazy but just in case it is, isn't it reasonable to include that possibility when deciding what should be done about it. The debate has been refocused on who's right and who's wrong about the cause and the issue itself goes unaddressed.
I know "Is God Green" is mostly about the progress being made and I'm thankful for that, but in a bittersweet way. See, when I was a kid I always felt a sense of pride picking up that one maybe two pieces of trash which instantly returned the beach to it's pristine and beautiful condition. Sunday I picked up 20-30 and it wasn't even noticeable. One kid then could do more than the whole world can do today.
So 63% of 20-30 million Evangelical Christians now think that Global Warming might be a problem. I wonder how they feel about the Trash Vortex? If we have to wait for Evangelical Christians to vote "Green" then we have got a long wait.