There is much to commend in ­Samuel Voth Schrag’s “Creation Care’s Collective ‘Yes,’ ” (June). However, there are other ways to address climate change. My great-grandparents, who immigrated from Vol­hynia in 1874, lived productive lives “off the grid of civilization” since leaving Switz­erland and the Low Countries in the 16th century. The legacy of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection is not the power of imperial civilization but the formation of local communities of faith. So we might consider whether a proper response to climate change is not to perpetuate institutional structures of domination and exploitation but to form local communities of faith that model a more humane and just way of living. But perhaps we prefer the more glorious and heroic role of trying to devise sophisticated technological solutions. We have hitched our fate to the American empire and no longer see any point in perpetuating alternative Christian communities, especially not when they involve living on the land as agrarian communities. 

S. Roy Kaufman, Freeman, S.D.