Good luck changing his mind
Lordy, the seas may have finally parted. In creative use of their fundamental beliefs some evangelical Christians have come to equate climate change action with their pro-life views and are
calling on Governor Scott to come up with a plan to adapt and mitigate climate change.
Rev. Mitch Hescox, president of the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), is leading the group’s campaign for Scott to recognize climate change as a major threat in Florida. EEN is collecting signatures for a petition asking Gov. Scott to create a plan for climate change, one which so far has garnered about 12,000 signatures. Hescox told ThinkProgress that EEN chose to focus on Florida because of its vulnerability to climate change — Floridians, especially in the Southeast region of the state, are already struggling to adapt to rising seas that lead to sunny-day flooding and stronger storm surges.
“We wanted to help the evangelical church understand in Florida that climate change is not a liberal issue or any issue other than a people issue,” he said.
In his tenure as governor, Scott has promoted natural gas pipelines and developers have
never heard him say 'No'. Scott has been
a fox guarding the henhouse on the Florida environment. He has been responsible for gutting environmental regulations and making our water problems worse. He's let the money-interests run ripshod over Florida's environment.
Hescox said he plans to deliver the petition to Gov. Scott in the coming weeks, and he’s also participating a panel at a church in Florida on Tuesday on why Christians should care about climate change. He’s done these types of panels in other states before, he said, and thinks churchgoers have been very receptive to his ideas. He’s hoping Gov. Scott will be, too.
“I can only knock at his door and see if he’ll open it,” he said. “We’ll pray that he will, and pray that we’ll be able to show him why this is an important matter to Florida evangelicals — and important to Jesus in my opinion.”
About time there's some right wing evolution on climate change. Perhaps some have noticed that the impacts of climate change are not reserved for liberals. I'm for whatever it takes.
H/T to Prognosticator in comments for petition link here.