William Dinges , professor, religious studies, was interviewed about climate change and religious belief in the National Catholic Reporter. See below.
From: National Catholic Reporter Date: Jan. 5, 2015 Author: Tom Roberts
... While religion is often the refuge of choice for deniers, it also is arguably the one discipline with a frame large enough to contain the entire creation/climate change picture.
Religious studies scholar William Dinges said it is becoming self-evident that a connection exists between the issues involved in climate change and religious belief. That wasn't entirely the case 18 years ago, when he started a course in religion and ecology at The Catholic University of America in Washington. Dinges, director of the religion and culture program in the Catholic University's School of Theology and Religious Studies, said the university honors program eventually developed a four-course sequence: the science of ecology, religion and ecology, economics and ecology, and public policy and ecology.
He believes we are at "a historic moment in which there is a lot of interesting thinking going on at a theological level, trying to come up with a new human anthropology" and ultimately "a more expansive sense of being pro-life." The switch involves moving from a "dominant theological paradigm" that always "judged creation in terms of human values" to a "more theocentric, biocentric" emphasis, in which humanity is more integrally knitted into the web of creation. ...