Transcript L is for Lifestyle, not just for Lent Week II

L is for Lifestyle, not just for Lent
Week II
Questions
1. Climate Change
• http://royalsociety.org/Climate-changecontroversies/
• www.facebook.com and search for The John
Ray Initiative
Questions
2. ‘Would you agree that if climate change was
due to natural factors alone, lifestyle choices
would inevitably be different, eg no need to
focus on carbon footprint?’
IF………..
• We knew for certain that burning fossil fuels did not release CO2 into the
atmosphere
• We were sure that there was no link between the amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere and the temperature of the earth
• Burning fossil fuels did not release other harmful pollutants into the
atmosphere
• It were possible to explore for oil, and extract it, without damaging the
land/sea that it is under
• We were sure that supplies of oil/gas/coal were limitless
• We could de-couple oil from war, violence and human rights’ abuses
• We could guarantee no oil spills
• We could guarantee continuing good relations with the countries that
supply our energy…
Other Questions
• How much energy is consumed by recycling?
• Are we going to live on this earth or a ‘new’ earth?
• Why is having chickens a Christian thing to do? Is
there any biblical reason for having pigs?
• Could the church please start a smallholding with
allotments for folks to work, and maybe chickens?
Our Circles of Responsibility
Me
My church
My community
My country
My world
Four areas for change
• The Food we eat
• The Way we travel
• The Energy we use
• The Things we throw away
Food
The Issues
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Ownership of food in hands of a few multinationals
Diet and health
Animal welfare
High energy and resource use
Use of pesticides, chemicals and impact on health
Climate change
Dietary changes amongst Chinese and Indian expanding
middle-class
Speculation in commodity futures
Agrofuels
GMOs
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes
Food waste
Local and GYO
Organic
Buying abroad
Fish
JRI/Redcliffe College Environment day Conference: Food Futures
Organised in partnership with John Ray Initiative, CMS and the Agricultural
Christian Fellowship
Saturday 6 March 2010
9.30am – 4.30pm
Newspapers and TV programmes herald the 'end of cheap food', warning us that
the global food systems on which we have come depend are increasingly fragile.
The cost to other nations and the environment, and the impact on UK food
producers, mean that in a few years we will not be living as we do now.
The Food Futures Day Conference at Redcliffe College, Gloucester, help us
respond by asking what God wants us to learn and how we could personally
change and adapt.
We will look at what Scripture says about our relationship with food and those
that produce it, and at what can be done to improve global production, food
security, and patterns of trade. For those of us who do not grow food but do eat
it, we will explore the jungle of food ethics and whether 'conscience in the
supermarket' is an adequate response to the coming storm.