Title

A Quaker Response to the Crisis of Climate Change

Description

A Quaker Response to the Crisis of Climate Change discusses how climate change and consumer waste negatively impacts disadvantage populations the most. The first two paragraphs of the introduction are stated below:

"The crisis of global climate change represents a supreme test of humanity’s collective wisdom and courage. Our immoderate use of the Earth’s resources violates the entire biosphere, threatening the lives of millions of people and the habitats of thousands of species. Many of the poorest people are already suffering a changed climate; they are
asking us all to act.

How has humanity produced this crisis? Our faith response is that prevailing social values have obscured what it means to live authentically on this Earth. In rich European countries we consume more than we need within an economic system that divides us as a society; in much that we do, we cause harm to the planet and each other without enriching our lives."

A Quaker Response to the Crisis of Climate Change

Date Created

June 2009

Creator(s)

Susan Seymour

Denomination

Christian

Sub-Tradition

Mainline Protestant

SubSub-Tradition

Religious Society of Friends, Friends United Meeting

Audience

All audiences/General public

Rights

The original html version of this resource was accessed at https://together.woodbrooke.org.uk/quaker.org.uk_mirror/quaker-response-crisis-climate-change.html on April 24, 2020

Resources For Study

Other Religious Environmental Statements

Issues

english Climate

english Sustainability

english Eco-Justice/Poverty/Racism

english Simplicity and Mindfulness