By Don Hoyle

As a citizen of the United States, a country which has pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and which was the world’s number one polluter of mother earth, I feel “I am a person of unclean lips who dwells in the midst of a people of unclean lips, but my eyes have seen the glory of the Lord.” Isaiah 6:5 Hopefully, many of our environmental businesses with their innovative technologies will help us keep our commitment to our obligations both financially to the UN Developing Nation’s Fund and CO2 emission goal of 2 degrees centigrade rise in temperature of the earth.

At the beginning of my global warming awareness some 15 or 20 years ago, I looked for a new day as the 19^th century author Robert Lewis Stevenson described, “The world is so full of a number things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings,” When I started my mission to combat global w

arming, I saw the possibility of another industrial revolution where all could benefit if the wealthy who would own the abundant new developments could share with the less fortunate masses.

I have been reading a book, given to me by our pastor Matt on the theology of a green God who is an extremely incarnational and giving God of compassion. I see one of these compassionate, sustaining gifts as being the sun, a gift from the universal God of nature. This universal, incarnational God is the foundation of all the major world religions. This same God was most prominent in the Christian religion in Francis of Assisi who wrote odes to the sun, the moon, and the stars. That God is also the foundation of our native American forerunners who lived with reverent appreciation to our universal Creator. As they did, we need to recognize God’s gifts of clean energy: the sun, the wind, heat underground, the power of the waves and so much more to be discovered.

As an Abrahamic religion, we all know and use in our places of worship, the following from Psalm 24:

I see the Paris Climate Accord as another step in the history of humanity where we acknowledge that we live in a universe that is our common home. If we as one family can work together to be better stewards of our common home, I believe we will see a brighter day on the horizon for ourselves and future generations. Every one of us needs to do our part to clean up and keep clean our Planet Earth.