Our addiction to fossil fuels and the consequent damage we’ve done to the earth as a result violates God’s call to Adam to “till and keep” the garden.  If God loves the earth enough to make a covenant with it, and I am a person of God, then I also must make a covenant with the earth.  I cannot honor my covenant with the earth by disregarding the unbelievable damage done by the burning of fossil fuels.  In an effort to live out my covenant with the earth I have to do all within my powers to do away with fossil fuels.

Source: A Theological Reflection on Divestment from Fossil Fuels – FossilFreeUMC