Faith Leaders Debate Effects Of Limits on Emissions
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 8, 2007

Excerpt: "Trading the same admonitions from Jesus to protect "the least of these," the climate-change activists said the poor would suffer most from extreme weather; skeptics of climate change said the poor would be hit hardest by the cost of shifting to cleaner energy sources.

Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and a former oceanographer, argued that "global poverty and climate change are intimately related."

She said that changing rain patterns would increase droughts in Africa and that the poorest Americans would be disproportionately affected by heat waves, extreme storms and the spread of infectious diseases. "I want to be absolutely clear: Inaction on our part is the most costly of all courses of action for those living in poverty," she said." the rest