From young evangelicals to National Prayer Breakfast: An urgent call on climate change

Many of you in attendance today are gathered in our name. You are pastors, leaders of denominations, and elders in the faith. Your generation has taught us to take the authority of Scripture seriously, to proclaim the Lordship of Christ in all things, and to passionately pursue the Church's mission in the world. For this heritage of faith, we are truly grateful.
It is in this spirit of gratitude that we write you today, as young Christians, to implore you to engage the climate crisis with the full and faithful urgency that it requires.
It is no secret that public dialogue around climate change has been bitterly polarized and divisive, and that Christians have been as guilty as anyone of perpetuating this reality. Yet the gospel of Jesus Christ calls us to do better than to parrot partisan half-truths and retreat to tribal foxholes.
It calls us to pursue truth and to announce it with hope.
It calls us to proclaim its good news to all, especially to the poor and the oppressed (Luke 4:18-19).
It calls us to love God with everything we've got and to love our neighbors as if their current circumstances and future prospects are our own (Matt. 22:34-40).
Taking bold and faithful climate action is an opportunity to get better at each of these commands, to get better at announcing the good news of Jesus Christ in a warming world.