People of Faith Are the Answer to Addressing Climate Change, Al Gore Says

From the roaring applause of the room and the familiar voice of a past presidential candidate, one would have thought they were in a campaign rally.

As former Presidential candidate and the 42nd Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, stood on stage in front of thousands of people, it was clear that he was in his element. 

Last week, 2,000 people gathered in Atlanta, Georgia to receive training from Gore through the Interfaith Climate Reality Project. This was the organization’s first Interfaith climate reality training. 

Since 2006, Gore has been on a mission to train as many people as he can on what he calls “the number one danger that we are facing today,” climate crisis. Many in the evangelical community struggle with this assertion, putting Gore at odds with some mainline evangelicals.

A 2015 Pew Research Poll found that only 28 percent of white evangelicals believed that the Earth was getting warmer as a result of human activity. This was by far the lowest percentage of any religious demographic in the survey.

While this may be the case, during a round table event with reporters, Gore noted that he welcomes other point of views from the evangelical community and would welcome mainline evangelicals to come to the table. 

Since the Interfaith Climate Reality Project’s inception, Gore has trained more than 19,000 people. 

During…