Christian organizations have criticized the United States for failing to do more to combat climate change. Church World Service, Christian Aid, and signers of the Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI) have called on the U.S. government to set mandatory emission reductions. Many of these Christians are involved in climate change activism because they say taking care of the earth is good stewardship of God’s creation.
ECI is signed by influential American pastors including Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life; Leith Anderson, senior pastor of Wooddale Church in St. Paul, Minn. and president of the National Association of Evangelicals; and Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago. They are among over 100 evangelical leaders who agree that global warming is real and mainly caused by human activities.
The World Council of Churches has also long been active on the issue and called for the world to change how it responds to climate change.
