Tag: fossil fuel divestment

  • A Critique of Wespath’s 2025 Sustainable Investment Report

    A Critique of Wespath’s 2025 Sustainable Investment Report

    By William Meyers for Fossil Free UMC Note: After studying Wespath’s recently released 2025 Sustainability Report, Fossil Free UMC coordinating team member William Meyers analyzed it and wrote this critique. The critique compares Wespath’s approach to climate change and climate justice (including human rights) to the approach taken by Fossil Free UMC. Fossil Free UMC

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  • Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Money, Not the Money Managers by Mark Davies The transformation of the world does not mean the destruction of the world or the destruction of a livable cimate for all life on earth. The United Methodist Church should not be investing and profiting from the fossil fuel companies that have created and are

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  • The Road to Environmental Redemption and Reconciliation

    The Road to Environmental Redemption and Reconciliation

    By the Reverend Christian DeMent, Pastor of La Mesa First United Methodist Church, on His Participation in California-Pacific Annual Conference’s Vote to Divest from Fossil Fuels I finally have some time to offer a reflection on my participation in the Fossil Free Legislation that passed at the Cal-Pac Annual Conference this year (2025). First, I’d

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  • Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy

    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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  • Vote Climate and Divest from Fossil Fuels

    Vote Climate and Divest from Fossil Fuels

    As published in United Methodist Insight. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.                    Ephesians 6:12 (NIV) During this election season, those of us who continue to work toward fossil fuel

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  • Do the Math: Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    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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