Eco-Justice Ministries Eco Justice Notes: Subordinate Clause and Our Children's Children

Subordinate Clause
http://www.eco-justice.org/E-110812.asp

Our Children's Children 
http://www.eco-justice.org/E-140131.asp

Conflicting priorities:

1. I will do what I can to preserve our way of life while I work for the health of the planet.
2. I will do what I can to work for the health of the planet while I preserve our way of life.

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Yale Report: Climate Change in the American Christian Mind

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/climate-change-in-the-american-christian-mind

We are pleased to release the first report,"Climate Change in the American Christian Mind," from our most recent national survey of global warming opinion. Many Americans draw, at least in part, upon their religious beliefs to guide their understanding and interpretation of climate change causes, impacts, and solutions. This report examines the global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and related moral values of three major groups of American Christians – Catholics, non-evangelical Protestants, and evangelicals. It also investigates how these groups currently view Pope Francis and the extent to which he is considered a trusted voice on the issue of global warming.

Yale Report - Climate Change in the American Mind, March 2015

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/Global-Warming-CCAM-March-2015/

Today we are releasing results from our latest national survey, conducted in March 2015. Nearly two-thirds of the American public (63%) currently think global warming is happening, a percentage that has remained relatively stable over the past five years. Similarly, the percentage of the public who think that if global warming is happening, it is mostly human caused (52%) has also remained relatively unchanged.

For Survey results in the Yale Climate Opinion Maps:
http://environment.yale.edu/poe/v2014/

To narrow down map to CT results, double-click on CT on the map

A World of Solutions: The U.N. Climate Sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5DxojGAEI

A week after the short film What's Possible opened the U.N. Climate Summit, Lyn Lear and director Louie Schwartzberg are back with a sequel that expands on their vision for climate change solutions.

Lear wrote in The Huffington Post:

Director Louie Schwartzberg and I had similar visions about the beauty and natural violence of evolution and the millions of years it took before human beings arrived on this planet. Then beginning with the Industrial Revolution, in less than two hundred years, man had almost brought this beautiful, complex creation to the brink of extinction. Inconceivable…right?

We wanted to show that we are still in peril, but more, we have the means to solve our problems in the present. There are many reasons to be optimistic and hopeful.

Part of that hope was to make a comparison of the semi-conscious mycelium root/soil system of the earth that feeds all plant life to the burgeoning Internet-connected global society we are evolving into today. If we could learn to use the Internet and mass media wisely we could be a powerful means for good and for progress.  

Learn more about climate change, and take action at takepart.com/climate.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE: The U.N. Climate Summit Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vaajVtgRuI

Presented to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, this short inspirational film shows that climate change is solvable. We have the technology to harness nature sustainably for a clean, prosperous energy future, but only if we act now. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it calls on the people of the world to insist leaders get on the path of a livable climate and future for humankind.

Learn more about climate change and take action at takepart.com/climate.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE was created by a team including director Louie Schwartzberg, producer Lyn Davis Lear, writer Scott Z. Burns, Moving Art Studio, and the Lear Family Foundation.

Home, the Film

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

http://youtu.be/jqxENMKaeCU

Is the Environment a Moral Cause?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sunday/is-the-environment-a-moral-cause.html?_r=0

To win over more of the public, environmentalists must look beyond the arguments that they themselves have found convincing. The next wave of moral arguments for environmental reform will need to look very different from the last, if they are to be maximally effective. Such efforts to understand others’ moral perspectives might not only bring both sides in line on this important issue, but also foster the sort of sincerity and respect necessary to sustain a large-scale collective effort.