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This isn't to suggest that Democrats and Republicans come in roughly equal shades of green. In the White House and in Congress, the Democratic Party has been a better friend to the environment, especially in recent years. But it means that environmentalism hasn't always been and needn't always be an issue that splits political parties - that valuing the Earth and promoting conservation can be themes that unite Americans, not divide them. And that unity will be especially necessary on climate change, a threat that demands such a sweeping response from America that only truly bipartisan action will...
Gingrich even published a book last year entitled A Contract with the Earth, calling for a conservative path to dealing with climate change. His solutions differ from those favored by many Democrats and environmentalists, who call for a strong carbon-cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over...
Eric S. Chivian ’64, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, said he felt a certain degree of trepidation in meeting Evangelical minister Richard Cizik. But the two were able to put aside their differences and fashion a program to...
But bond they did. And in the years since then, their friendship has created a new organization to combat the destruction of the environment, landing the two on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, which was released yesterday.
“Science without religion loses its ethical guide, and religion without science lacks the means and resources to understand the world,” Cizik said. “This is a kind of synthetic approach to the environment that draws on our mutual strengths.?...