Anglican Communion Environmental Network - News

Given the Ecological Crisis, what is the role of the church?

Kay Goldsworthy, Assistant Bishop of Perth, chaired a session in which both the science and the implications for moral leadership at a time when our very existence is under threat was considered.

The principal speaker, Professor Chris Rapley OBE, currently Director of the Science Museum and well known expert on climate change, outlined some of the indisputable evidence: the earth is a complex object with no manual, no spares and is finite. Its currently unhealthy state is being driven by human behaviour, and the need for fossil fuels that has happened within the last 200 years. The UN IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) wrote in 2007 that "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal". The effects of climate change can be seen in one off extreme events, which impact areas such as flooding in low lying coastal communities, as well as gradual changes.

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