New Interfaith Electronic Climate Change Network is Launched
Episcopal News Service. January 17, 2002 [2002-013-7]
[Episcopal News Service] A web-based electronic advocacy network to support work among faith communities in protecting the environment has been launched.
The new Interfaith Climate Change Network offers an extensive stock of information and practical, specific actions for the stewardship of creation at www.protectingcreation.org. Along with energy conservation ideas for households, congregations and communities, the network will facilitate advocacy supporting environment-friendly policies for mass transit, emission standards and development of clean and renewable energy.
The network is co-sponsored by the Eco-Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, made possible by funding from the Turner Foundation.
People of faith bring a particular perspective to work in protecting the environment, said the Rev. Richard Killmer, the NCC's director of environmental justice. 'All of creation is threatened by climate change. Global warming hurts God's creation and God's people. Poor people in developing nations are most severely impacted by changing weather and rising seas and have the least capacity to adapt. Unless global warming is reversed,' he warned, 'future generations will inherit an unstable climate, potentially catastrophic rises in sea level, migration of tropical diseases and disrupted agricultural production.'