That's now the Economist titled its recent Erasmus blog on Islam and Ecology.
It ends:
"... the very nature of environmental challenges gives a certain integrity to eco-religious discussions. Rising sea levels, melting glaciers and expanding deserts will affect everybody, regardless of what they believe. The intensity of that effect may vary according to how much money people have to protect themselves from environmental change, but it will not, as far as we know, affect Hindus, Christians, Muslims or atheists in different degrees. As a verse in the New Testament puts it, rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. To that extent, it surely behoves all schools of religious and non-religious thought to think hard about the fate of the earth and to talk to one another."
Indeed; but the key word here if "almost", and so it won't be any easier than it usually is.
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