Unlike U.S. Republicans, Islam Calls For Climate Change Action

Islamic Declaration on Climate Change; Islamic leaders call their community to climate action.

Erika Street Hopman, May 19, 2016 (Yale Climate Connections)

“…[‘Allah] has created the universe in all its diversity, richness and vitality: the stars, the sun and moon, the earth and all its communities of living beings…’ [begins the Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change, a call to action for the 1.6 billion Muslims around the world…[For Islam, nature is alive and conscious and follows God’s laws and breaking those laws in the name of earthly welfare is destroying the very habitat that God created for us, according to] Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University…The Declaration outlines [a unified vision for how the Islamic community can provide leadership on climate changeand uses passages from the Qur’an to call] for people worldwide to phase out greenhouse gas emissions, invest in a green economy, pursue growth in moderation, and prioritize adaptation…” click here for more

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