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Jewish leaders need to step up on climate change
The Jewish world’s environmentalist engagement of three decades ago is overdue for a revival. Photo by Karsten Winegeart/Unsplash/Creative Commons
February 3, 2021
(RNS) As the Biden administration gears up to combat climate change, I’d like to see the leaders of my religious community at the forefront of those rallying to the cause.
It’s not as if the Jewish rank and file are unconcerned. Back in 2014, a PRRI survey found that fully 78% of us consider climate change either “a crisis” or “a major problem” the highest proportion of any religious group in America. And there’s no shortage of Jews involved in large secular environmental organizations, to say nothing of a number of small Jewish ones.
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