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Religion and climate change

April 9, 2013
https://p.dw.com/p/188B7

How do the world's major religions perceive and deal with climate change? That's the focus of a special edition of Global Ideas that continues this week. We put that question to people of various faiths - from Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews. We asked them to explain whether climate protection is anchored in their holy texts and what responsibility religion bears for combating climate change. This week, we hear from a US researcher about the attitude of some religious groups in the country towards environmentalism, a Jewish anthropologist talks about the significance of nature in his faith, we learn about how Hindus' have a deep reverence for nature and how the fate of local fishermen on a remote Indonesian island is no longer determined by gods, but by climate change.