Letter: Turning climate change around will require the very best efforts of politicians, entrepreneurs and individuals
Landscaping at the new LDS meetinghouse in Farmington, Utah, was designed to cut water use by more than 50 percent.
LDS Church
Thank you to Joseph Walker for his recent article ("Who do we think we are?" Nov. 3) highlighting the climate change awareness and activities being supported by different religious groups.
Turning climate change around will require the very best efforts of politicians, entrepreneurs and individuals, and so it's great to see churches and other influential organizations getting involved.
I noticed that the article once again featured the LDS Church's LEED-certified Farmington chapel. This one building (out of 17,000 LDS meeting houses worldwide) keeps getting pointed to as evidence of commitment to good earth stewardship, but aside from this isolated example, the church has been largely silent.
No entity of which I'm aware is able to rally activism and support like the LDS Church. They show that time and again in their ability to lend humanitarian assistance and relieve suffering after the escalating number of natural disasters. I'd love to see the church take an equally active stand on preventive maintenance.
Matthew Weed
Salt Lake City
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So a relatively small group of 1830s settlers in Nauvoo were able to drain the swamps and somewhat change its climate but 7 billion people on the planet with a LOT more technological firepower cannot exert an influence on the climate?
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I'm with you, Matthew, but the Church has lots of right-wing climate-change deniers and members who think the Millenium is imminent, so why bother caring for or about the environment. I still see vast expanses of lawn at many LDS churches in More..
A great letter. But MONEY might make the final decision thanks to the Koch brothers and others like them. The really big question is how common people concerned for the future can overcome the nefarious desires of people like them.
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