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Whose responsibility is it
to care for the earth?
Whose job is it to care for the earth?
•Governments?
•Businesses?
•Scientists?
•Media?
•Public?
•Environmental groups?
We believe that:
God created
the heavens
and the earth.
God took the man
and put him in the
Garden of Eden to
work it and take
care of it.
The earth is the
Lord’s, and
everything in it.
God so loved
the world….
…all things have
been created
through him and
for him.
2009 Operation Noah Annual Lecture
‘Living in a way that honours, rather than threatens
the planet, is living out what it means to be made in
the image of God’
‘What we face today is nothing less than a choice
about how genuinely human we want to be.’
The Five Marks of Mission
1. To proclaim the Good News of the
Kingdom
2. To teach, baptise and nurture new
believers
3. To respond to human need by loving
service
4. To seek to transform unjust structures of
society
5. To strive to safeguard the integrity of
creation and sustain and renew the life
of the earth
Is there a problem?
• Burning fossil fuels → CO2
• CO2 is a greenhouse gas – Tyndall, 1850
• 97-98% of active climate scientists agree with
the consensus on climate change – that it is
happening and it is serious
700
CO2 in 2100
(with business as usual)
600
Lowest possible level of CO2 if
stabilised now
500
400
CO2 now
300
CO2 levels
10
Temperature
difference
0
200
temperature
from now °C
–10
160
120
80
40
Now
Time (thousands of years)
100
CO2 concentration (ppm)
The last 160,000
years (from ice cores)
and the next 100
years
What is Operation Noah?
ON is an ecumenical Christian
charity providing leadership, focus
and inspiration in response to the
growing threat of catastrophic
climate change.
Registered Charity No: 1138101
Our vision
Our vision is of
a world where
people live
sustainably, in
harmony with
the planet.
We believe the church should be taking a
lead in responding to climate change, calling
on Christians and our wider society to change
the economic priorities on which our lives are
based and seek climate justice.
Our approach
• Operation Noah aims to provide ethical and
moral insights for the Church. It promotes
radical, rapid and equitable changes in our
use of resources
• We are working towards a zero carbon
Britain by 2030; campaigning both for a
reduction in carbon emissions and for
climate justice.
• We produce a wide variety of resources.
“The next generation will ask
us one of two questions.
Either they will ask: "What
were you thinking: why didn’t
you act?" Or, they will ask
instead: "How did you find the
moral courage to rise and
successfully resolve a crisis
that so many said was
impossible to solve?"
Al Gore
www.operationnoah.org