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Tag: Climate Justice
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Essential Understandings: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Action
In this article, members of the UMCJM Coordinating Team clarify some of their essential understandings about climate change, climate justice, and climate action in the hope that it will stimulate discussion and action among United Methodist leaders, agencies, jurisdictions, conferences, churches, and church members about this critical issue. Essential Understandings: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate…
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Climate Justice and COP29
“We confess that the negative impacts resulting from the degradation of the natural world have fallen disproportionately on marginalized communities, including indigenous tribes, religious and ethnic communities, people living in poverty, and other vulnerable groups. We, therefore, pledge to resist all forms of environmental exploitation, neglect, and inequality…We oppose policies and practices that relegate marginalized…
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Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy
A Cobb and Friends Presentatiowith Sharon Delgado YouTube recording of Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy, October 15, 2024. United Methodist preacher, author, and long-time climate justice activist Sharon Delgado proclaims God’s tangible presence in and through creation and the glory of a sacramental universe, but she contends that we face a reckoning as…
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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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