Comments on: Is “climate change” a religious issue?

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:38:49 +0000

Global Climate Change is about as a done deal as there is in science. 900 collated peer-reviewed studies arrived at the conclusion that 90% of the change was caused by human activity. The only “debate” being offered is by biostitues hired by the energy industry.

And the ever shrinking ice caps give a lie to the “no warming going on here” meme. So forgive me if we might think that whole patches of land going under the waves might be a problem. Bangladesh is getting double hammered as it is slowly going under water and is getting hit by fiercer and more frequent cyclones. Katrina was just a taste of coming attractions.

So as a matter of life or death to the human race, there might be something a good Iman might want to say about Global Climate Change.

By: Dru

Dru — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:47:44 +0000

Of course global warming is a religious issue!

Here is a wonderful presentation from Imam Afroz on the reality of Peak Oil that I encourage everyone to look at.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:19:04 +0000

They “speak out” about it but none of the imams have a solution to the problem, do they? It’s just vague and vacuous calls for the government to “do sumfin”.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:31:40 +0000

what the? Imams speaking out about social sustainability and the looking after the planet (our trust) as a religious obligation?? outrageous. they should go back to making people feel guilty and penitent about important things like sexual immodesty and listening to bad pop music.

By: Hamed

Hamed — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:32:49 +0000

Did you read the rest of the interview? Afroz “Our Farmers are Suffering” Ali eloquently defines what it means to be Australian.

“Losing Australian-ness means that we are becoming slaves to the economy. We are becoming influenced by other nations when Australia is fully capable of making its own decisions for its own people for its own good. We have an indigenous population that needs to be looked after, that needs to be learnt from, and we have an environmental problem in our own country. Our farmers are suffering. These are very Australian values that we need to uphold.”

Gold.

By: Loulou

Loulou — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:00:57 +0000

Did they give out the title of “Imam” at a raffle or something? Since when is Afroz Ali an imam?

By: Ted Sprague

Ted Sprague — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:43:20 +0000

In order for global warming to be a moral issue, it must be proven that it’s entirely man-made and the jury is still out on that one.

But let’s assume it is man-made. Then these religious leaders have to prove that the problem should be addressed or can be addressed by government. Faith in global warming might be misplaced but it’s even more misplaced to think that the government can somehow just magically solve it.

By: Yakoub

Yakoub — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:22:13 +0000

Oh, for crying out loud!!! I think the kind of cynicism expressed in Spiked is henious. Global warming is THE issue of our time. That the chattering classes need to debate this is, in my view, symptomatic of why we got into this pickle in the first place. As my best mate’s mum use to say, they need a damn good whacking!

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:11:54 +0000

Replying in point form, because I can.

1. It’s common knowledge that to be a cool and progressive religious leader, you must be on the global warming bandwagon.

2. Given that global warming is still the subject of scientific debate, it is quite the leap to treat it as a moral issue. No offense to Al Gore who did, after all, invent the Internets, without which we would not be conversing right now.

3. Even if we concede that global warming is in fact a moral issue, it is hardly major when compared to supporting dictatorships, for example.