As people of faith, we believe that God created this world, called it good and told humans to care for it. We are blessed to have this sacred task.
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Our daily experience, confirms that these extreme climate events keep taking place with greater frequency and intensity each year. This is threatening our food and energy security…. Climate change represents an imminent threat to balanced and well-adjusted development in our country… ultimately, we are seeking to motivate the search for new paths, both of theory and practice, for new opportunities and strategies. We seek to facilitate the development of individual lifestyles and comprehensive government policies that provide protection, care, and access for all of creation.
-Conrado Oliveria, RED Uniendo Manos, Joining Hands Peru
Burning carbon-based fossil fuels for our energy produces greenhouse gases which warm the planet. This causes an increase in devastating fires, floods, droughts, and storms. These effects often impact impoverished and vulnerable communities first and most deeply.
While not all Presbyterians have the same passion around climate change, we all want a healthy world with clean air and clean water for everyone.
In 2006 the General Assembly passed a carbon neutral policy calling Presbyterians to take the results of our energy consumption seriously, to pray asking for God’s forgiveness and guidance, to reduce energy consumption, and to calculate carbon emissions and offset their negative impact.
We have the knowledge and resources to reduce our energy consumption and switch to energy sources that are less harmful to the environment. Prompt action and leadership can keep climate change from causing its worst impacts.
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The Challenge
The Climate Care Challenge is a two part commitment that first asks participants to make a personal step to help decrease the impacts of climate change, then asks for an outward step that engages the participants community.