“Why religion is the basis for solving climate change” – Watt?

Eric Worrall's paper

“…The climate crisis requires new ways of thinking…religion is crucial to achieving this goal. …”

Why religion is crucial to addressing climate change

Posted: February 25, 2025 12.25am aedt
Hanane Benadi
Research Officer, Religion and Global Society, London School of Economics and Politics

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Building a global response to the climate crisis requires us to understand the many ways people make sense for climate change and learn to endure its consequences. For most of the world’s population, a pure scientific framework is useless.

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My team comes from the LSE Religion and Global Social Studies Department, and I held a climate change and religious seminar in Cairo with Muslim, Christian women and male faith leaders. Many of the 30 participants explained that they were frustrated by the climate science lens-dominated frustration.

A member of a faith-based organization told me in an interview after the workshop: “Western organizations and research institutions often contact us. However, when we ask about the nature of these collaborations, it is often reduced to us. and tell people that they should care about climate change statements.”

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As Russian writer Leo Tolstoy once wrote: “Science is meaningless because it has no answer to our only important question: 'What should we do, how should we live?''' The climate crisis requires new ways of thinking, and new ways of perceiving reality and religion are crucial to achieving this goal.

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Read more: https://theconversation.com/why-religion-is-fundaMental-to-fo-foindural-to-climate-change-248074

One thing I really like about American Christians is their tolerance. If someone lives a decent life, there is room in the United States where everyone can find their own path.

But, in my opinion, this development between climate and religion is a revert to the decline of thought in the dark ages, oppressive religious figures that determine every aspect of people's lives.

In a free society, you can question religion, you can question science. But when science becomes the end of the world religion, questioning is heresy and blasphemy. When religious leaders assume the mantle of scientific authority, we all see what happens to people who question it.

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