Evangelicals + Environmentalism = ?

I think what I'd like to do here is present a few passages from this article and provide my comments. This is my attempt to show what sections I would highlight with a marker, and what I would probably write in the column of the page if I was reading this article on paper. I would recommend reading the article first then reading my comments. The article quotes will be in bold and my comments will be in italics:

"Anything that draws me closer to God -- and this does -- increases my faith and helps my work for God."
-I think this is definitely how environmentalism should be marketed towards evangelicals. For those people who are very religious, this topic needs to appeal to their desire to work for God.

"Her conversion to environmentalism is the result of a years-long international campaign by British bishops and leaders of major U.S. environmental groups to bridge a long-standing divide between global-warming activists and American evangelicals."
-I wonder how/why/where this "long-standing" divide developed between global-warming activists and American evangelicals? Can someone shed some light on this for me? Why do they single out "American" evangelicals? Fundamentally, why would a global-warming activist view differ so much from an evangelical?

"The two, later joined by the Bishop James Jones of Liverpool, England, started organizing conferences on both sides of the Atlantic to convince U.S. evangelicals that human-generated warming poses a threat to God's creation."
-Again, another marketing point to use on evangelicals.

"What bloc of people has enormous influence, especially on the Republican Party? That group of people is right-wing Christian evangelicals" -- who made up 24 percent of the U.S. electorate in the 2004 and 2006 elections."
-Wow, I had no idea that evangelics made up that much of the U.S. electorate. Definitely a huge group that needs to be reached.

"Hunter and Conservation International's Campbell drafted a tool kit titled "Creation Care: An Introduction for Busy Pastors" to send to evangelical leaders. Within a matter of months, they had produced a package of Bible passages and information on scientific findings to promote action on climate change."
-Hmm...I wonder how much of the scientific findings these people would actually read over the Bible passages.

"The "greening" of Hunter and others still elicits scorn from many evangelicals, including Focus on the Family's James Dobson and Prison Fellowship's Charles W. "Chuck" Colson. They question whether humankind really deserves the blame for Earth's recent warming and argue that their battles against abortion and same-sex marriage should take precedence."
-Now this passage really got to me. In my opinion, there is no topic of greater importance than the environment. Think about it. If we let the environmental situation get out of hand and this planet become uninhabitable, what else matters??? Right. Nothing.

So in summary there are a lot of American evangelicals out there. For some reason there are differences between pro-environmentalist and evangelical trains of thought, and somehow the message needs to get across to these people that protecting the environment is crucially important. The way to do this is to appeal to their sense of serving God. I think this was my first post about religion. Don't worry, I promise a lot more to come.