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09/17/2007: "Unable to take action, people turn to symbol worship"

Last week on a ship in the Arctic, as religious leaders gathered to make a silent "prayer for the planet".

They stopped short of openly asking a deity to reverse global warming, but their vigil symbolises a growing consensus between religions on the seriousness of global warming. "Whatever denomination we are, we will try to proclaim loud and clear that we should, we must, pay attention to the
water resources and climate change," said Cardinal Thomas McCarrick, who represented the Roman Catholic church.

[ When you are too disorganized to do anything tangible, invoke the name of symbolic deities. This isn't a shallow anti-religion rant: your God wants you to help yourselves, or die trying. He won't do it for you. That's the whole point of having God and Man alike. ]



http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19526213.800