A humble view of climate change

Each week, The World and Everything in It features a “Culture Friday” segment, in which Executive Producer Nick Eicher discusses the latest cultural news with John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Here is a summary of this week’s conversation.

This week, John Stonestreet called for humility in the conversation about climate change. He referenced a study in the journal Nature Geoscience that discussed how the most recent supervolcano, which researchers estimated erupted 70,000 years ago, completely changed the climate for a decade.

“[It] made it many degrees cooler than the worst prediction the climate change alarmists are saying,” Stonestreet said. “Even if we take all the predictions at face value, we have a lot less influence on the world than [they] think we do.” Stonestreet urged Christians not to adopt the political illusion—the notion that all problems and their solutions are political ones:

“We are able to exist by divine consent. We do live in a universe that makes special concessions for human beings to live and move and create and innovate … and I think that should drive us to a lot more thankfulness than alarmism.”

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