Global Change

Calls to conversion in how we relate to God, self, others as part of the Earth

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Eco-Congregation Scotland is a movement of Scottish church congregations, of all denominations and none, committed to addressing environmental issues through their life and mission.

Church of Scotland: Addressing Climate Change

“Laudato Si'” was published by the Catholic Church, a call to hear the cries of the earth and the poor; to  ecological conversion and to an integral ecology:

Extinction Rebellion

Human-caused global change....The Ecological Emergency

Climate Disruption 

Met Office report published August 2020

if the preliminary measurement of 54.4C taken in Death Valley  in August 2020 holds up then there’s at least a plausible argument that it’s
the hottest ever recorded: https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2020/08/17/did-we-break-the-planetary-temperature-record-sunday-probably-so/

IPCC report summary, 2019

How will climate change affect Scotland?

Climate disruption – best term to use?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2015/03/12/forget-global-warming-and-climate-change-call-it-climate-disruption/#6857828550e2 

 

The UN conference on climate change, Paris, 2016

UK report: State of Nature UK report 2016, The State of Nature in the UK and its Overseas Territories.

A Carbon Footprint Calculator http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

Links to resources to help with raising awareness of Climate Change, from “Hope for the Future” https://www.hftf.org.uk/

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy: https://www.carbonbrief.org

The harm humans do it to more than the climate…..

Its about more than the 

food insecurity http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2020/en/

Air pollution

deforestation

soil degradation

resource overuse

The links between global changes, sustainability and poverty

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Guardian article on a UN report (17 October 2016)

World bank:Climate change complicates efforts to end poverty

National Geographic: See what climate change means for the World’s Poor

Laudato Si – Pope Francis, https://laudatosi.com/watch

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