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As a social impact professional, I regularly write a range of communications materials. But I also write occasional articles on climate and environmental topics, especially from the angles of personal engagement, faith and spirituality, social justice, and psychology. Writing helps me think, learn, and act; I hope my work helps readers do the same.
I've written for online outlets and my own platform, Movement & Meaning. Views = my own.
Young women are leading the global movement calling for climate justice, even as government leaders fall short at global talks. For moral clarity and courage in this era of climate crisis, we’d do well to listen to and imitate the young women leading the way.
Those of us who are all-too-aware of injustices around the world can easily succumb to a sense of powerlessness, or paralysis, or continue patterns of avoidance or bystanderism...So let’s leave aside the question of massive trends and scary events and political gridlock for now. Let’s take up instead the question of how to be helpful in this era.
As far as the moral and physical arcs of the universe go, there will perhaps never be a window of time where it’s so important and possible to bend them in the same direction—away from heat and toward justice—than this year and the next few.
Are we imagining a world of collective support or a world of scarcity, where everyone scrambles for the last spots in the boat? (Written with Liuan Huska)
Hope, I've learned from wise people, ought not be a precondition to acting, based on sight or emotion or even evidence, but rather on a practice of acting in hopeful ways. Hope is acting with courage in the face of an unknown future.
After COP26, those concerned for climate justice clearly still have work to do. In its aftermath, there are lessons to draw and work to do for climate-concerned activists and organizers, businesses, and politicians.
A lot was at stake last month in Glasgow, Scotland during the UN Climate Conference (COP26). The summit brought together the nations of the world to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions-to keep the crucial threshold of 1.5°C of warming in reach-and move financial support pledged to the countries most harmed by climate change.
Sunday began COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The event is widely considered one of the most important and urgent opportunities to date to curb the climate crisis' most deadly effects. It is being watched closely, including by Christians, for its life-and-death implications.
Occasional writings on the interplays between action and reflection, practice and thought, outer and inner worlds - and how they help us face this climate era.