ABSTRACT
Climate change is now considered the most important, most threatening, most dire aspect of our contemporary environmental crisis. As scientists and activists spoke out, ever more insistently, about what rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will do to the Earth’s climate, and what impacts that will have for societies all across the planet, many of America’s religions began to express concern and call for action: the Roman Catholic Church; all mainline Protestant churches; conservative and Reform Judaism; the Greek Orthodox Church; and others. Several chapters in this book describe how some of these faiths have engaged with the climate threat.
