WCC Executive Committee: global biodiversity crisis reaches urgent level

Title: WCC Executive Committee: global biodiversity crisis reaches urgent level
Description: This article from the World Council of Churches discusses the current biodiversity crisis. The majority of land surfaces and ocean areas are significantly modified, and over 85% of the wetlands are gone. The following excerpt notes how this subsequently affects the poor and vulnerable:

"The statement notes that, increasingly, the drive for relentless expansion built into dominant economic systems are endangering the survival of many of God’s creatures. 'Ultimately our significant and adverse impacts on ecology will impact humanity’s own future,' the statement reads. 'Already they are destroying the very basis of sustenance of our income-poor, vulnerable and Indigenous sisters and brothers, who contribute least to the ecological damage for which human beings are collectively responsible.'"; WCC Executive Committee: global biodiversity crisis reaches urgent level
Date Created: May 27, 2019
Denomination: Christian
Audience: All audiences/General public
Rights: The original html version of this resource was accessed at https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wcc-executive-committee-global-biodiversity-crisis-reaches-urgent-level on March 27, 2020.
Resources For Study: Other Religious Environmental Statements
Issues: english Biodiversity; english Eco-Justice/Poverty/Racism

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