In her book Natural Saints: How People of Faith Are Working to Save God's Earth Mallory McDuff quotes a member of the religious environmental group Georgia Interfaith Power and Light as saying that:

the science of climate change and the environmental crisis is the wake-up call. But faith in God provides the hope that gets us out of bed to do something about it. Faith gives us the hope, joy, and possibility of triumph to “let not our hearts be troubled” but to move forward with action. And ultimately, this hope is what the religious community can offer that the secular environmental groups have not been able to provide.1

At the end of her book McDuff revisits much the same theme, writing that “[the] God thing has the power to convert our individual, radical acts of faith into a collective force, which is necessary to confront the environmental degradation...

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