WASHINGTON (BP)--The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a coalition of evangelicals focused on the issue of global climate change, has released a 16-point public policy agenda for balancing concern about global climate change with social responsibility for people who live in poverty.
The 19-page document, "The Cornwall Stewardship Agenda," calls for governmental policymakers to focus on "firmly established risks" to the climate and respond "in ways that are cost-effective and have proven benefit." Humanity's "divinely ordained responsibility to exercise faithful stewardship" includes not only protection of the environment but also "meeting human needs (particularly those of the poor), cultivating human creativity and helping people flourish," the document says....