It isn't easy being green

National | Earth Day meeting mixes bad theology with pseudoscience | Roy Maynard

It's the countdown to Earth Day '96 and a bright lecture hall begins to fill.

This is EarthCare '96, the Christian Environmental Stewardship Conference in Chattanooga, Tenn., where the themes and tenets of secular environmentalism are gleefully recycled with a Christianized twist.

Richard Cartwright Austin-a former Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor who lists himself as an "environmental activist and farmer," author of a four-book series on "environmental theology," and a faculty member of the Appalachian Ministries Educational Resource Center-declared in the conference's opening address: "Today's living community is in crisis. People constitute a 'modern flood.' Just as a 'large meteor' caused the extinction of dinosaurs 67 million years ago, today's crisis of extinction also has a single cause-the impact of the modern human community on the environment."

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