Cornwall Alliance
evangelical anti-environmental front group
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation is a conservative Christian public policy group promoting a free-market approach to care for the environment as sufficient. It is critical of much of the current environmental movement. The Alliance is "engaged in a wide range of antienvironmental activities" and denies man-made global warming.
Originally called the "Interfaith Stewardship Alliance", it was founded in 2005 in reaction to the efforts of evangelical leaders, such as Rick Warren, to fight global warming. The name Cornwall came from the 2000 Cornwall Declaration. The organization's views on the environment have been strongly influenced by the wise use movement of the 1980s and 1990s. It is a member of the Atlas Network and also has ties to The Heritage Foundation.
Cornwall Declaration
In 2000, a statement called the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship was put forward and has been signed by over 1,500 clergy, theologians and others according to Cornwall Alliance. Signatories include prominent American religious individuals from the Roman Catholic, Jewish, and Evangelical worlds such as Charles Colson, James Dobson, Rabbi Jacob Neusner, R. C. Sproul, Richard John Neuhaus, and D. James Kennedy.
The declaration states that human beings should be regarded as "producers and stewards" rather than "consumers and polluters".
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