URI positions support population control, environmental extremism, and are radical on sexual matters. There is heavy emphasis on New Age ideology in the URI, and many of its strongest proponents are New Age thinkers such as former UN official Robert Muller and writer Neal Donald Walsh. Religious syncretism is a theological error.
Planners encourage church sermons that condemn the use of fossil fuels.
Clergy are being instructed to tell the members of their congregations that they have a moral obligation to support the policies advanced by the environmental movement. The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is highly organized. Therefore, it seems prudent for these large religious bodies to collaborate with the NRPE . Forcing environmental issues into a spiritual package requires churches to scrutinize the information for doctrinal validity. The main objective is the transformation of social order into a global society organized around the notion that the earth itself is the giver of life, and that all of the world's religions are evolving into a state of enlightenment which recognizes Gaia as the true source of life and spirituality.