We believe that God became united with creation in a special way through the birth of Jesus: the wonder of God’s love that we call the Incarnation. Through this singular act, God demonstrated the divine love for all that is. For those of us who have committed ourselves to being followers of Jesus, the message could not be more clear. The created order matters; it is of incalculable value, because it is of God and is loved by God. We are, therefore, called to live in harmony with that created order because it is of God no less that we are of God.

To treat creation as an expendable resource meant solely for our own use without a thought for the larger good or the unfolding future is, at least to be thoughtless and is I believe, sinful.

To persist in the misuse of our resources and to ignore determinedly the evidence of the dangers of global warming is to do damage to the future of the human community. As its most benign, this failure is evidence of profound ignorance. At its worst, it is evidence of intense greed - a greed so boundless that it is prepared to risk the future of vast numbers of the human family ( to say nothing of all the rest of plant and animal life) to further enrich the powerful few.