Conference: Religious Perspectives on Climate Change

“No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections and convictions. The proof that conservation has not yet touched these foundations of conduct lies in the fact that philosophy and religion have not yet heard of it. In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

Does Aldo Leopold’s lament still hold true today? How do some of the world’s religions address the issue of the environment? How do they treat the split between human beings and nature? Is there scriptural support for attending to the issue of climate change as a religious and moral issue? How can concern for climate change be integrated into religious rituals as a way to modify behavior and consciousness? What is being done to reach across traditions and to foster interfaith dialogue and collaboration? What more needs to be done?