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Neall Pogue, Assistant Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at Dallas

How evangelicals moved from supporting environmental stewardship to climate skepticism

A display questioning humans' role in climate change, at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Ky. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

White conservative evangelicals, who make up most of the religious right movement, largely oppose government regulation to protect the environmental initiatives, including efforts to curb human-caused climate change. Multiple social scientific studies, for example, consistently reveal that this group maintains a significant level of climate skepticism.

Contrary to popular perception, however, this hasn’t always been the case.

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