A Call to Listen
“The ones in charge, the ones with power, influence, and resources have made the decision not to care, not to act, not to respond to God’s command to live in right relationship with the earth. They have hardened their hearts. They may believe they have every right and reason to do so. But who ends up suffering in the end? The children. This is what is breaking my heart. I fear that we are giving up on our own children and their future.
But I know this: the children of earth are not giving up on us. They are rising up in court rooms and classrooms, on Native reservations and at international conferences. They are calling us to account. Like Moses sent from the burning bush, they are demanding that we release them from the chains of fossil fuels. God’s voice speaks through them – let my children go!”
Leah D Schade, Encountering Pharaoh – and Climate Change in Phil Snider (ed) Preaching as Resistance: Voices of Hope, Justice, & Solidarity, 2018, Chalice Press, p.95
Taking Action
The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) is an Australian multi-faith network taking action on climate change. Its website has extensive resources to help you become involved in this important work.
Thea Ormerod, President of ARRCC at a Peace for Climate Sake forum.
Uniting Church members have joined the Moderator of NSW/ACT in a call for a Rising Tide of Climate Action. See the article here.
The Asian Conference of Religions for Peace has made a Statement of Reflecting on COP 30
In October 2023, Pope Francis wrote a letter to all people of good will on the climate crisis.
A Final Reflection
“If a strategy is to have any chance of success, the solutions must be formulated in the light of the problems and not from the timorous and superficial understanding of what may or may not be immediately feasible.”
Charles Birch, Confronting the Future, Australia and the World: the next hundred years. 1975, Penguin, p.25
