Conservative Christians are often painted as caring little for the state of the environment, but such portrayals ignore the deeper truth. Beginning in Genesis and confirmed throughout Scripture, Christians understand all of creation to be under the dominion of God and, as such, worthy of respect and care by humans.
Christians still find themselves at odds with the some of the prevailing political agendas that place a preeminence on the environment over the care of humans, particularly the world’s poor. They also take issue with an increasingly anti-human trend in radical environmentalism that views people as a global cancer or virus that must be eliminated.
The following organizations feature resources designed to help Christians wade through the varying ideologies driving the environmental agenda and develop a sound biblical worldview.
The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.
http://www.cornwallalliance.org/
The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD) is an ecumenical alliance of U.S. Christians working to reform their churches' social witness, in accord with biblical and historic Christian teachings, and to contribute to the renewal of democratic society at home and abroad. IRD works to advocate a social witness on the environment which elevates human beings, lifting them from poverty and pollution. IRD rejects the dangerous misanthropy of modern environmentalist ideologies. In contrast, we promote an environmentalism which affirms that humans and human activity are valuable, worthy, and, in fact, indispensable in God’s good plan for this good Earth.
http://www.theird.org/Page.aspx?pid=227
The Acton Institute for the study of religion and liberty has assembled a number of resources to help Christians respond to the environmentalism movement. They write, “A proper, biblical understanding of resources and of humanity's relationship to nature provides the basis for a solid environmental ethic. It also protects us from the tendency among many in the wider environmental movement to idolize nature.”
http://www.acton.org/issues/environment.php
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