Tag: climate change
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No Climate for Reopening a Mine
Hi Friends, I published this post to support our local struggle to keep from reopening a gold mine in Grass Valley: As we residents of Nevada County struggle to adapt to extreme drought, heat waves, water shortages, periodic power outages, and threat of forest fires, Rise Gold is trying to persuade us that reopening the…
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Local Grandmothers Highlight Intergenerational Pipeline Struggle
In late May, I travelled to Minnesota by train with three other local grandmothers, Janie Kesselman, Shirley Osgood, and Joyce Banzhaf, to join a 31-member delegation of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations. Our purpose was to highlight the intergenerational nature of the struggle to stop construction of the Enbridge Line 3 dirty tar sands oil…
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Resisting Banks that Fund Climate Change
Progressive Christian Social Action Resisting Banks that Fund Climate Change Re-posted here on United Methodist Insight e-magazine. On September 25, 2019, during the week of the Global Climate Strike, I participated in an action in San Francisco that focused on big banks, in solidarity with the millions of children, young people, and their allies…
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Youth-Led Climate Actions
Progressive Christian Social Action Youth-Led Climate Campaigns I often walk along a canal in the woods near my home. One day, while walking there with my teenage granddaughters and two of their friends, our talk turned from light-hearted banter to the state of the planet. Sixteen-year-old Darren said, “When I think of the future, it’s…
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Global Climate Strike
Progressive Christian Social Action Global Climate Strike In a recent article, climate leader Bill McKibben challenged adults to offer support to children and youth who face accelerating climate change by joining in upcoming Global Climate Strike actions. He asked, “On what kind of world do we expect 15-year-olds to tackle our biggest problems by themselves?”…
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Climate Trial: #AllEyesOnJuliana
Progressive Christian Social Action Climate Trial: #AllEyesOnJuliana Tomorrow, June 4, in Portland Oregon, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, three judges of the Ninth Circuit will hear Trump Administration lawyers who seek to stop the progress of a high-stakes trial related to climate change: Juliana vs. the United States. The lawsuit is being brought by a…
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Christian Responsibility for Climate Change
Progressive Christian Social Action Christian Responsibility for Climate Change “How can modern Christianity have so solemnly folded its hands while so much of the work of God was being destroyed?” Wendell Berry As Hurricane Harvey devastates communities in Texas, catastrophic rains are also paralyzing cities in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, causing many deaths.…