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On the same day Pope Francis issued a new call for climate change action, a group of mostly mainline Protestant and Jewish leaders launched a seven-year campaign to advocate for meaningful climate solutions.

<a href="https://www.onehomeonefuture.org/" target=_blank>“One Home One Future”</a> is the latest multifaith effort intended to engage congregations in caring for the Earth.

But a new <a href="https://www.prri.org/research/the-faith-factor-in-climate-change-how-religion-impacts-american-attitudes-on-climate-and-environmental-policy/" target=_blank>survey</a> released by the Public Religion Research Institute suggests that work won’t be easy.

Beliefs on the severity of climate change have not shifted much among religious traditions over the past decade and few religious Americans view climate change as a crisis, according to the PRRI study published Wednesday.

Overall, 27 percent of Americans say climate change is a crisis, just a few percentage points up from 23 percent in 2014. Among the nation’s religious groups, beliefs on the severity of climate change have not shifted significantly. In fact, among White evangelicals, the view that the Earth is in crisis dropped — from 13 percent in 2014 to 8 percent today.

No religious group topped one-third of respondents agreeing that climate change is a crisis. American Jews were the most likely to say so at 32 percent, followed by 31 percent of Hispanic Catholics, 22 percent of White mainline Protestants, 20 percent of White Catholics, 19 percent of Black Protestants and 16 percent of Hispanic Protestants.

The survey of 5,192 adults in all 50 states, conducted online June 8-28, shows that despite growing climate calamities, American opinions have not moved dramatically.

“The fact that it remained unchanged was pretty remarkable to me,” said Melissa Deckman, CEO of PRRI. “It’s just really concerning,”

So far in 2023, the United States has had 23 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/09/12/us-weather-2023-record-hurricane-wildfire-flooding/" target=_blank>weather and climate disasters</a> that cost more than $1 billion each in damage. Those include Hurricane Idalia in Florida and the wildfires in Hawaii, which are believed to have killed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/15/maui-fire-death-toll-missing/" target=_blank>97 people</a>. August was the planet’s <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news/world-just-sweltered-through-its-hottest-august-on-record#:~:text=August%202023%20was%20Earth's%20hottest,NOAA's%20174%2Dyear%20climate%20record." target=_blank>hottest</a> in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record.

While religious Americans mostly agree that climate change is caused by human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, here too there are exceptions. Nearly half of White evangelicals (49 percent) still believe climate change is caused by natural patterns in the environment.

To a great extent, these unyielding views may be shaped by politics. Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints, who overall don’t see climate change as a crisis, are stalwart members of the Republican Party, which has resisted acknowledging climate change. (Former president <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/" target="_blank" class="contextual_link">Donald Trump</a>, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee in 2024, has called the extremely settled science of climate change a “hoax.”)

“I’m not at all surprised to find that White evangelicals and Latter-day Saints tend to be the least likely to think that climate change is caused by humans or see any sort of policy to address it because we know that the Republican Party’s official position has often denied climate change and it’s certainly not advocating for policies that mitigate climate change effects,” Deckman said.

The survey found that fewer than 3 in 10 Republicans (28 percent) believe climate change is caused by human activity. Fully half of Republicans believe climate change is caused by natural changes in the environment, and an additional 20 percent think there’s no solid evidence for climate change. By comparison, 83 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of independents believe climate change is caused by human activity.

In stark contrast to religious Americans, the religiously unaffiliated increasingly view the Earth as being in crisis. Among this group, often referred to as “nones,” that view grew 10 percentage points, from 33 percent in 2014 to 43 percent in 2023.

At the same time, the theological notion that God has called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of society appears to be waning. Fewer than half of White evangelicals subscribe to this belief, and far lower numbers of other religious groups do. Religious groups are now more likely to believe that individuals are required by God to take care of or be good stewards of the Earth, the survey found.

On Wednesday, Francis issued a stark reminder about the effects of climate change. He warned that “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.”

In an update to “Laudato Si’,” the pope’s pioneering 2015 encyclical that rang a clear alarm bell about the climate, Francis asserted that “despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident.”

And he took direct aim at the United States, for the “irresponsible lifestyle” causing irreparable harm to the planet.

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