At the interfaith event focusing on the environment that we attended last week with the Dalai Lama and local...

At the interfaith event focusing on the environment that we attended last week with the Dalai Lama and local religious leaders, Rabbi Michael Cahana said that the scientists he knew had lost hope that we could stop the coming horrors. Then, he said that the role of religion and spiritualism was to offer hope. This makes sense to me, but I would add this: We're not getting out of the impending environmental catastrophe by stopping what we are doing now, and we are not getting out of it by hoping. The only way we might get out of it is if enough scientists can borrow enough from religion and spirituality to have hope and keep trying to figure out a way to reverse the damage done, and enough religious folks can believe in and do what the scientists suggest they do, and together they-slash-we can find a way to fix things. That (admittedly very narrow) path is the hope I cling to.