Why did terrorists attack the United States? The Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry believes they were responding to U.S. corporate economic institutions that harm the poor and accept deadly pollution and global climate change as mere costs of doing business.
Michael S. Northcott, a priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church and a divinity school professor at the University of Edinburgh, echoes many of Berrys prophetic warnings. He calls Christians to confess the climate change they are forcing on the poor and to assume political responsibility for it.
The first three chapters of This article appears in March 24 2008.
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