Hawks, hippies and the holy unite to turn America green

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Comment: Andrew Sullivan: Hawks, hippies and the holy unite to turn America green

A couple of decades ago a young Tory wannabe policy analyst wrote a pamphlet called Greening the Tories. It was an attempt to argue that being in favour of environmental protection and energy conservation was not necessarily a liberal or statist idea.

Conserving is, well, conservative. Keeping the air clean, cars efficient and energy affordable benefits everyone, regardless of ideology. Why, in any case, should conservatives be so hostile to environmentalism? If done right — with market incentives and smarter technology rather than with crude regulation — it could be a conservative vote-winner.

Well, the idea didn’t get far. I wrote the pamphlet more as a thought experiment than as a blueprint. But if you live long enough even too-clever-by-half post-adolescents can find solace.

So here’s a simple question: who do you think are now advocates for new energy technologies and environmental regulation? Here’s the surprising answer from America: a motley collection of neocon hawks, Christian evangelicals and right-wing isolationists...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1562286,00.html

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1. "Creation Care"

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Lately, many evangelicals have also begun campaigning for what they call “creation care”. “Environmentalism” sounded too hippie for their tastes.

Mankind, they argue, has a duty to be a good steward of God’s world. And that means energy conservation. “The environment is a values issue,” the Rev Ted Haggard, president of the 30m-member National Association of Evangelicals, recently told The Washington Post. “There are significant and compelling theological reasons why it should be a banner issue for the Christian right.”

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today editorialised last autumn that “Christians should make it clear to governments and businesses that we are willing to adapt our lifestyles and support steps towards changes that protect our environment”.

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2. But...but...they're actively chopping trees down so Jesus comes back!

It's part of the Dominionist plot which they are all a part of! This "creation care" has to be be some sort of ruse for these fascist theocrats to use to throw us off!

_{NOTE: This post is sarcastic.}