My previous post (“Hope in the Age of Climate Change”) raises a phrase
that I tend to avoid using, although I believe it. It is this:

Christian hope, however, is different. It is reasonably skeptical of the human capacity to bring good out of the deepest tragedy because humans lack the power to do so.

I am just cautious about how it seems to justify, for some, an accusation that Climate Activism is some act of mistrust in God; that it is an indication that we think we can “do it ourselves”. This is a key and frequent misunderstanding, and really bad theology as I see it. The “trust” here is that God calls us humans to “keep” Creation and each other, and it takes ALL of us. To dismiss this “call” and say “you’re trying to do it on your own. Only God can save us”. To say “only God” seems to give some the idea that humans should step aside and wait. “Wait for God”, yes. Wait for us to make up our minds, NO. Well, we DO have to engage our discernment and stay awake and be ready to hear. But that is not what I hear from people who claim that worrying about Ecological Crisis is “failing to trust God”. “Trusting God” does not mean refusing to see reality. Trusting God is seeing it and responding to it as God would have us respond.