Their favored solutions involve heavy U.S. government and even international regulation of industry. None of the participants in the Partnership stray far from environmentalist orthodoxy. They hail the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit and embrace the Kyoto accords, seemingly unconcerned about the potential economic disruption they may cause. The worst claims about global warming are accepted as fact, with alternative explanations ignored. Population and economic growth are seen as the enemy.
Environmental exploitation is portrayed as the unique legacy of Western Civilization.
The United States is faulted for the enormous resources it consumes, but given no credit for the enormous resources it produces. Overall, the Partnership seems more grimly Malthusiasn than hopeful about Providence or human creativity. Doubtless some clergy and church goers, under the Partnership's influence, will set to work fighting the expected environmental apocalypse to come, eagerly recycling, shunning Styrofoam, and fretting over ozone. But most will likely shrug and recognize the Partnership as just one more attempted revival of 1960s style Religious Left activism.