Because of overuse of water and climate change, the Great Salt Lake is drying up — and the Mormon Church is taking on an unusually public role to help save it.
published one month later by state agencies and other researchers was scarcely less dire, saying the “situation requires urgent action.”said Bonnie Baxter, director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College and one of the January report’s co-authors. That still might only reach the mark of previous lows measured in 2021.
In deep-red Utah, where most Mormons are Republicans, a pro-industry and government-skeptical ethos long fueled “really strong anti-environmental attitudes among members of the church,” said George Handley, a Brigham Young University professor who co-founded LDS Earth Stewardship. The nonprofit highlights the faith’s teachings on caring for natural resources.has deepened, though, Handley has sensed a shift.
“I think there is no group that has more credibility than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in solving this issue,” said Abbott, a church member who has consulted with officials at headquarters. Indeed, the gift will not raise lake levels: That water was already flowing to it, partly through the reedy shallows of Farmington Bay, a birding and duck-hunting hot spot. Its value, boosters say, is that it now cannot ever be diverted for other purposes.will follow suit, Sedgwick said. It hopes the same of its work reducing the sprawling emerald lawns at the meetinghouses — neighborhood churches used for weekly services — that seem ubiquitous in the Salt Lake Valley.
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