Just as scientists announced July was the hottest month in recorded history, and ahead of a major climate summit in Paris later this year, an international group of Islamic leaders on Tuesday released a public declaration calling on the religion’s 1.6 billion followers to engage on the issue of global warming and take bold action to stem its worst impacts.
“What will future generations say of us, who leave them a degraded planet as our legacy? How will we face our Lord and Creator?” —Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change