Gentlemen,

As one who has taken an active role and studied environmental issues for over 30 years, and who originally became
a chemical engineer with the idea that I could make a difference with regard to improving the environment by working
in the industry, I have a serious problem with churchmen who are jumping on this bandwagon today.

Through my studies I learned that what was called for most to save the environment involved simple, common sense
behavioural changes by the populace in general, and not the slam-dunk of industry called for by religious environmental
fanatics, the mainstream press and science community intelligencia. Unfortunately, it appears that the founders of the
Evangelical Climate Initiative have caught up by the hype and some how feel this is the most critical issue of the day.

Back in 1970, when I was in high school, a number of us students formed an environmental organization, called
SCUM – the Society for the Control of Undesireable Materials. At the time, a friend of mine advised that he felt that the
main problem was that of “mind pollution” as opposed to “environmental pollution”. While I agreed with him, I felt that
the physical environmental issue was much more visible and therefore more immediate. Two decades later my friend was
dead, from the effects of drug abuse –just one form of mind pollution.

Today, in retrospect, I see that our moral environment has become much more polluted and yet few have recognized this
–especially from those in the media, who are actually contributors to the problem. Science can’t solve this problem because
it is outside of their field of expertise. The Churches, whose jurisdiction this falls under, don’t seem to recognize it but
rather have become sidetracked into the physical environment issue, which is not their business! If the Chruches were to
focus on addressing and cleaning up the mind pollution problem, the environmental pollution problem would solve itself.

If you check out the CIA environmental disasters map of the world you will see that there are huge contaminated areas in
other parts of the world –principally the former Soviet Union– the contamination of which far exceeds that of any areas in the
West. The world would get a much bigger bang for the buck by using the resources which are being directed to solving the
so-called “global warming” crisis if they were instead used to clean up the polluted areas I have just described.

Put simply, Churchmen need to shift their concern over solving social/political problems and direct it toward solving the moral
corruption which exists in the world. In this area, it is the “civilized” western countries that have the greatest moral pollution.
You ministers and priests, get back into the pulpets and confessionals and get out of the public square.

Respectfully yours in Christ,

Ron Rosmer, BASc- Chemical
Hinton, Alberta, Canada

http://www.christiansandclimate.org/signatories

(perhaps editors can post links to previous Hayford experiences)