A news release from the British Consulate in New York gushed that the NCC-led delegation was meeting in Northern Ireland with “local parishes, community organisations and policymakers” to “discuss an interfaith approach to climate change and environmental programmes.”  The consulate also enthused that religious groups in the U.S. have “formed highly effective alliances around the issue of climate change; they have joined together, found common ground and are working together to affect changes at the local, regional and federal levels.”  As the British spokesman explained it, these various effective religious Global Warming activists are using the “environmental agenda as a means of strengthening and broadening the peace and reconciliation agenda” in Northern Ireland .

Neither the NCC nor the British Consulate explained the specifics as to how Global Warming activism was to help foster peace and reconciliation after centuries of strife in Northern Ireland .   But the religious enthusiasts for Global Warming scare scenarios often portray their campaign, even if sometimes apocalyptic in its warnings, as ultimately therapeutic.  After all, what can be more joyously unifying than saving the whole Planet?  

"Working on climate change is an opportunity to move beyond the past and to work together for the global community to create a stronger peace at home," explained Liore Milgrom-Elcott of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, according to the NCC news release.  "The focus of our work on has been on the disproportionate impact climate change will have on people in poverty here in the U.S. and abroad," further explained Dan Misleh of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change.  Read the rest...

Write comment
Name:
Email:
Subject:
	Please input the anti-spam code that you can read in the image.

3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."