The aspirations of the developing world are raising consumption while advances in new technologies for clean and efficient energy make renewable energy a significant technological and economic option. We must take time to engage this challenge as a moral people at this pivotal, historic moment. We are not scientists, energy experts, or policymakers. But this challenge raises fundamental moral and religious questions and we believe the perspectives of faith and values should help shape a national discussion. In light and wind, in land and water, energy resources are abundant gifts for human well-being from our creator God.
Energy conservation is faithful stewardship.
The gifts of God's creation are to be conserved over time for God's children. By depleting energy sources, causing global warming, fouling the air with pollution, and poisoning the land with radioactive waste, proposing a policy stressing, only, more fossil fuels and nuclear power diminishes our children's and grandchildren's health and well-being. Energy conservation is intergenerational duty. The gifts of God's creation must be shared fairly among God's children. Energy policy must be an instrument of social and economic justice here and abroad.