New climate-change documentary focuses on people of faith

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If An Inconvenient Truth didn't exactly bring evangelicals to the multiplex in droves, The Great Warming just may. Religious leaders hope the documentary, to be screened in September and distributed in October along with voter guides and eco-sermons, will mobilize religious groups around climate change -- just in time for midterm elections. "[T]here is no doubt about the mandate of scripture here. We need to do what we can to care for the Earth," says Pastor Joel Hunter, who is apparently reading different scripture than some Jesus-lovin', climate-change-denyin' folk we can think of. Hearteningly, a July survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that more than 70 percent of people of faith polled believed that global warming is a real danger. "It's time to get beyond talk to action," says Great Warming producer Karen Coshof. And some praying probably wouldn't hurt either.

straight to the source: Reuters, Carey Gillam, 10 Sep 2006

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Talk about conversions!

What a terrific contribution to the cause of generating action on global warming! As much as I applaud the missionary work of Al Gore via his doc, I fear that most viewers of it are already in the church ... and they're watching to have their intelligence confirmed and their moral fortitude reinforced. A case of stoking the fires of the core believers.

This doc, on the other hand, has the potential for whipping up moral fervor from folks who have been sitting out the global warming issue ... only vaguely aware of it and not yet perceiving the moral imperative involved.

God bless the producers and whoever fronted the production money!

Tom Belford TheAgitator.net

by tbelford at 2:46 PM on 12 Sep 2006

global warming

Well,I don't know where you got your information,but it must be faulty. The president of the united states still has not acknowledged that there is such a thing as global warming and he should know.Oh yeah, I forgot he has muzzled the scientist and forbid them from talking about certain things in the public forem on penalty of ouster. So anyhow there is no such thing as global warming.

Why not ask why!?

by usandthem at 9:27 AM on 13 Sep 2006

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