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Month: February 2024
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Join Bill McKibben for a Conversation on Divestment
Hosted by Fossil Free UMC, the UMCJ Movement Cafe, and Climate Cafe Multifaith Join us virtually for: A Conversation on Divestment with Bill McKibben. Thursday, March 7th at 10:00am Pacific Time / 1:00pm Eastern Time. Register. Our conversation will center the divestment efforts of people of faith, and the effort to divest in the United
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Let’s Shake the Coal Dust Off our Feet
It’s Past Time for United Methodists to Divest from Fossil Fuels Jesus said: “If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” Mark 6:11 It’s past time for the United Methodist Church to shake
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Engagement & Divestment, Four Key Points
A stable pension and a stable climate go hand in hand. Most people agree that in the face of the harms of climate change, some form of engagement is necessary to deal with the compounding environmental and climate pollution impacts of oil and gas companies. The question is, what type of engagement is measurably working
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Do the Math: Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Way back in 2012, just when the fossil fuel divestment movement was getting started, United Methodist and climate leader Bill McKibben popularized a simple mathematical formula that calculates what might make it possible to move away from the threshold of climate chaos. The math comes from economists and scientists, but was given widespread attention when
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Lenten Reflection in Verse
Climate, Crisis and Numbers I am growing weary of the phrase’collective self-annihilation’spoken by folks in powerasserting a perspective that their actionsand their behaviors are‘ours.’ The royal ‘we.’ It is spoken in politeness,in proximity—complicitly—simultaneouslypolite enough not to call outor offend, but to pretendand get to join, as if ‘we’we really are buddiesenjoying the plunderextraction and colonialism
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A Lenten Reflection on Divesting from Fossil Fuels
This reflection was written to be published in the upcoming MFSA newsletter. As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you,
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10 Reasons for Wespath to support fossil fuel divestment
As of December 2023, 1,600 institutions and organizations have chosen divestment. Estimated divested funds total $41 trillion dollars, with faith-based organizations representing a full 35.7% of that total. Where your treasure is, there your hearts will be also. Matthew 6:21 Below find ten reasons to divest–centering the efforts and concerns of Wespath. As United Methodists,
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Plain Talk: This is what’s at stake
The truth. The impacts. Why we must act with urgency to stop emissions by divesting from fossil fuels at every level. At this point we have to be really plain about what is happening right now to the planet, and what we risk tomorrow if we do not act to address the climate crisis. And
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