A Conservative Case for Creation Care

Hard as it is to fathom now, not only the nominee McCain but also the runner-up and religious right favorite Mike Huckabee spent 2008 talking green and supporting substantial action on climate change. Rod Dreher had identified a new political species called Crunchy Cons, and even Newt Gingrich was pitching A Contract with the Earth. But Obama won, overreached, and in the end gained nothing but a galvanized anti-green opposition. What could have been a GOP sea change instead became a U-turn.

The reversal was surprising because the creation care movement seemed to have the momentum in a new millennium. Rick Warren and Bill Hybels, two very influential megachurch pastors, were among an impressive list signing onto the Evangelical Climate Initiative in 2006. The National Association of Evangelicals's man in Washington, Richard Cizik, experienced a climate conversion and basked in the mainstream media limelight. William F. Buckley had good things to say.

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