The “biblical” position currently focuses solely on how much fighting climate change would cost, and that doing away with fossil fuels will harm poor people around the world. Overall, the pushback on President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, from rejoining the Paris Agreement to pledging to cut carbon emissions in half by the end of the decade, has been notably flaccid.
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That is not to say that the agenda will have smooth sailing in Congress, and certainly not that their drift on climate change will turn white evangelicals into Democratic voters. But it does suggest that climate isn’t focus-grouping with the Republican base the way, say, immigration is.
And speaking of immigration, it has become clear that climate change is a major driver of the flow of refugees to the U.S. from Central America, as rising temperatures harm coffee growing and other crops. What better way to keep evangelical support coming than by selling your climate agenda as critical to mitigating pressure on the Southern border?
This article originally appeared on ReligionNews.com.
