Obama: Religous Beliefs Say to Protect the Environment

While speaking in Des Moines on Sunday, Barack Obama spoke about how caring for the environment is shown in your religous beliefs.

Speaking at what he termed an interfaith forum on climate change, the Illinois senator said God has entrusted humans with the responsibility to care for the Earth, and "we are not acting as good stewards of God's Earth when our bottom line puts the size of our profits before the future of our planet."

"It is our responsibility to ensure that this planet remains clean and safe and livable for our children and for all of God's children," he told a group of 200 people gathered at the downtown public library in Des Moines. "But in recent years, science has made it undeniably clear that our generation is not living up to this responsibility. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now."

This is one way Obama is finding the common values and attempting to bring people on both sides together.