Moyers: Evangelical Split on global warming [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz
January 08, 2007

What happens when a prominent evangelical crosses the Bush Administration, Big Energy, and the mainstream of his own faith?

A recent NOW program traced the history of the evangelical rise to political power and its subsequent effect on our nation's environmental policies -- most notably on our embarrassing position of skepticism toward Global Warming.

In this first part, Richard Cizik, former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, talks to Bill Moyers about God, global warming, and the responsibility of humanity, as he sees it...

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