During the industrial revolution when coal burning was darkening the skies of Britain William Blake described energy as 'God's eternal delight'. As Christians we find our moral and spiritual energy for life from the daily infusion of the grace of the Holy Spirit. If we are to prevent the planet burning up from climate change we need to recover a deep reverence for the planetary energy that fuels our daily lives.
Michael Northcott is an Anglican priest and Reader in Christian Ethics at the University of Edinburgh.
Michael Northcott is Professor of Ethics in the School of Divinity at
the University of Edinburgh. He was visiting professor at Flinders
University in Adelaide and at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
in 2008. His book A Moral Climate? The Ethics of Global Warming published by Darton Longman and Todd has been widely praised for its lucid portrayal of the challenges and opportunities that climate
change presents for moving to a fairer and more peaceable world. He is
an Anglican Priest at St James Leith in Scotland, Canon Theologian of
Liverpool Cathedral, and a trustee of Traidcraft, Britain's oldest and
largest fair trade organisation.
