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Article: Warming up to 'creation care'.(VIEWS: ON GOD)
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- Science & Spirit
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- January 1, 2008
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The world is getting warmer. This past summer, I visited our "early warming system" for North America, an island village named Shishmaref located off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea. The native tribe of Inupiks is already experiencing a devastating climate blow: the rise in sea level has forced them from their home of four hundred years.
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For them, and for some coastal megacities in the developing world, the debate on climate change is already too late. They are learning to move and adapt. But the debate is only about to show its force in American politics and religion.
Many fundamentalist religious leaders have ...