Tag: environment

  • Let’s Shake the Coal Dust Off our Feet

    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

    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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  • Plain Talk: This is what’s at stake

    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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  • Investment Myths: Biofuels

    Investment Myths: Biofuels

    by Rev. Kimberly Hornung-Marcy Biofuels are increasingly heralded as a cleaner alternative to oil and gas. Yet emissions and environmental research tells us that biofuels are a false solution. Biofuels and biofuel investment continues to harm the earth, cause emissions, and harm the local as well as the global environment. Scroll for information, links, and…

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  • A Fossil Free UMC Response to COP28: The Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm for Climate Rescue

    A Fossil Free UMC Response to COP28: The Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm for Climate Rescue

    Read this also at United Methodist Insight. “My kingdom is not of this world.”  John 18:36 (NIV) What was the outcome of COP28?  What light can our faith shed on these and other efforts to alleviate climate change and support climate justice?  Finally, how does the mission of Fossil Free UMC to divest from fossil…

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