Evangelicals and Environmental Issues

Consider you’re a United States Senator from Kansas and there is an upcoming vote in the Senate on whether or not the government should pursue a more rigorous course of action on global warming.  Voting for the bill will increase government subsidies on energy-efficient products, thereby lowering the cost to consumers to purchase the products which are environmentally friendly yet currently more expensive (i.e. Toyota Camry Hybrid, EG light bulb, etc.)

You want to vote according to your constituents, who are almost entirely evangelical, but you recently read a newspaper with the headline “Evangelical Christians split over Global Warming.”

Explain the two evangelical points of view and conclude how you would vote and why..

http://www.creationcare.org/
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2618
http://iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/18/america/NA-GEN-US-Evangelicals-Global-Warming.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4695320.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/US/GlobalWarming/story?id=1594019&page=1
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53009
http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/12/NATEVANGELICAL1227a_5REP.html
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2006/02/20060213_2.asp
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=5582528200
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/national/08warm.html?ei=5090&en=c398855db07c1657&ex=1297054800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1139408332-9VIwyrdN9nOgrdT3nJg7zw
http://greenskeptic.blogspot.com/2005/03/evangelical-environmental-awakening.html
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=1389
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/10/05/gate/