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Tag: climatecrisis
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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Allies for Climate Justice
The United Methodist Church must divest from fossil fuel companies if it hopes to be an ally for climate justice. If fossil fuel companies were allies in addressing the global climate crisis, they would not have buried their own scientific findings about the reality of climate change in the 1970s, they would not have attacked…
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Divestment Conversation: Follow Up
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Conversation on Divestment with Bill McKibben, William H. Morris, Steve Hucklesby and more! The opportunity was especially rich in thinking about divestment not only as an essential part of addressing the climate crisis, but also as an essential moral action–an act of faith. Please sign on to…
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Oil and Gas – Where are we now?
When good people have tried everything. …though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.Proverbs 24:16 It’s been thirty years…. As we see push after push for divestment from citizens, organizations, and people of faith, it is helpful to take a moment with the question, where are we now…
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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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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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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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