Inst Of Climate Change - Omniscience Christian Climate Change Institute

28/08/2023

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/18-august/news/uk/christian-climate-action-urges-cafod-to-stop-banking-with-barclays

MEMBERS of Christian Climate Action (CCA) held a vigil outside CAFOD’s London headquarters last Frid...

28/08/2023

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-did-hawaii-wildfires-start-what-know-about-maui-big-island-blazes-2023-08-11/

Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui have killed at least 114 people, forced tens of thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate the island and devastated the historic resort city of Lahaina. It's the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.

28/08/2023

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/august/maui-fire-lahaina-church-missionary-history-relief-christia.html

Once the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom, Lahaina was home to Maui's first church and seminary.

04/12/2022

https://youtu.be/VaTgTiUhEJg

dontchooseextinction.comThe world spends an astounding US$423 billion annually to subsidize fossil fuels for consumers – oil, electricity that is generated b...

31/10/2022

Planetary Stewardship....A Christian Duty of Care.........

This year's climate summit comes amid spiralling energy costs and diplomatic tensions.

20/09/2022

Exclusive: The 8th Secretary General of the UN, who now co-chairs the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens, tells senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle about what gives him cause for hope – and trepidation – just 60 days out from climate summit Cop27

20/04/2022

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Lasting fifty days, the season of Easter, also known as Eastertide, is a time for celebrating new life. After journeying with discipline and devotion through our own desert-places during Lent&…

16/02/2022

The Christian's Environmental Duty of Care
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The Bible seems to proclaim that nature was made as it should be and is something that should be respected and protected. In Psalms 104:25,30, it is written: “In wisdom you made them all, the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number – living things both large and small…. When you send your Spirit, they are created and you renew the earth.” The general spirit is one of positivity and love here.

In another portion of the Bible, the ability to learn from nature, and the respect we should give to nature is thoroughly expressed: “Job 12:7-10. But ask the animals, and they will teach you; or birds of the air and they will tell you; or speak to the earth and it will teach you; or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?”

Whether as a metaphor or in reality, in Ezekiel 34:17-18 and Jeremiah 2:7 (respectively) lack of environmental stewardship is admonished forcefully: “As for you, my flock… Is it not enough for you to feed on good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?;” “I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and you made my inheritance detestable.” These are strong criticism of humans degrading the Earth here.

Of course, greed and over-consumption are delineated as highly sinful throughout the Bible. Whether we are average Americans or wealthy ones, we live in perhaps the wealthiest society in the history of the world. Naturally, even our “basic needs” are excess comforts and pleasures these days. In reference to over-consumption and greed, here are a few quotes from the Bible:

“James 5:5. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.”

“Mark 4:19. …and the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.”

“Luke 12:15,23,34. And He said to them, ‘Beware and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does life consist of his possessions. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.'”

“Mathew 19:24. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

The teachings expressed in the Bible concerning the environment seem to advocate a strong environmentalism in which humans should be responsible for the environment. It strongly advocates against consumerism and taking more than you need from the world.

16/02/2022