Anglican Minister Brings Climate to the Pulpit. By Christopher Joyce, All Things Considered, NPR, April 29, 2008. "One thing climate experts often say is that people need to change their behavior to slow climate change. And they also acknowledge that they still have a lot of convincing to do before that will happen. One man, Martin Palmer, argues that religion is a better messenger than science and politics -- that it can do things the others cannot. Palmer is the founder of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a small group working out of Bath, England. Its credo is that religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism are the perfect groups to become climate activists... [Because they're in for the long haul, religions]... can tackle long-lasting problems like climate change. They also know how to talk to people -- and not with scientific data. 'There are tens of thousands of scientists who do that perfectly well,' Palmer says. 'What we want to bring is the passion, the commitment... and the interpretation of meaning that religion brings to the data.'"
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