Evangelicals in Brazil see abuse of God´s earth as a sin. But will they fight ...
(WorldNews Environment)

When the Brazilian city of São Paulo abruptly went dark at midday on Aug. 19, there was talk of the Apocalypse - not all of it in jest. In fact, meteorologists explained, unusual wind patterns had carried smoke hundreds of miles from the burning Amazon rainforest. The smoky fog blanketing São Paulo in darkness forced 21 million city-dwellers to confront the deforestation under way in remote reaches of South America. For some conservative Protestants, however, São Paulo´s sudden eclipse illustrated something they already believed to be true: Humans have violated God´s plan for the Earth by abusing the environment - and climate change is the result. Christians and the climate Christian...