ABSTRACT
On the 27 April 2015, several weeks before the Vatican issued Pope Francis’ encyclical On Care For Our Common Home (Pope Francis 2015), the Cornwall Alliance, an American Christian evangelical coalition, issued an open letter on climate change addressed to the Pope. Whilst commending him for his care for the Earth and for God’s children, the letter raised concerns about the quality of some aspects of climate science and about the worldviews underpinning some climate policy advocacy. Interpreting the Bible as mandating a preference for the poor, the authors of the letter concluded that “it is both unwise and unjust to adopt policies requiring reduced use of fossil fuels for energy” (Cornwall Alliance 2015).
