Whaaa? I’m going to have to make a new category called “oh brother” for stories like this. Now I’ve heard it all! The title of the article that caught my eye is “Climate Change Taxing Churches’ Aid” and here it is:
Global warming will force faith organizations to significantly increase spending on humanitarian efforts — including refugee resettlement, feeding the hungry and disaster relief — according to a new study by the National Council of Churches.
More financial resources and volunteers will be needed because of climate change, which is expected to increase the lack of food, shelter and water, especially among the poor, the study said.
The report uses data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to quantify the financial effects of global climate change on church ministry efforts.
The council’s Church World Service and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, for example, will need to increase funding sixfold to support nearly 83,000 refugees coming to the U.S.
Also, to maintain current service levels, churches will need to double their spending on food in developing countries, the study said.
What’s this mean? We need to increase funding sixfold to support the 83,000 refugees coming! This year the Bush Administration’s goal is for 70,000 refugees. It wasn’t too many years ago we were well into the hundred thousands and global warming hadn’t become an issue. (Check out the stats here.)
And to think there will be people shelling out money to these shameless church groups because supposedly global warming is going to cause more refugees.
We definitely need an “oh brother” category!