Transcript Creation care

Creation care
“The earth is the
LORD’s and
everything in it.”
(Psalm 24: 1)
Climate change
• Over the last 40 years, the earth has been
warming, mostly due to increased emissions
of CO2 from burning fossil fuels
• Seven thousand million tonnes of CO2 are
emitted globally per annum
• A warmer earth leads to a changing climate
Climate change
Consequences of a warmer earth:
• Melting arctic sea ice
• Melting glaciers
• Rising sea levels and
flooding
• Drought
• Spread of disease
• Species extinction
Climate change
Consequences of a warmer earth:
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Desertification
Declining crop yields, malnutrition, hunger
Conflict
Refugees
Climate change
Who suffers with climate change?
“The impacts are inequitable: poor countries
will be hit hardest and earliest, when it is the
rich countries who are responsible for threequarters of greenhouse gases currently in the
atmosphere.”
(The Stern Review, 2006)
Creation care and mission
Why should Christians care?
• The earth belongs to God – he loves and
cares for it
• People are already suffering through the
effects of the changing climate
• “When Christians take the earth seriously,
people take the gospel seriously.” (Rob Frost)
BMS and the environment
Green solutions
BMS long-term workers,
Daveen and Mike Wilson
have set up a beekeeping project in Trapiá,
Brazil, to help improve
income in the local
community and to care
for God’s creation.
Living locally, thinking globally
“If every UK household installed three
energy-efficient light bulbs, the
electricity saved in a year could power
all the streetlights in the UK.”
(Energy Efficient Partnership for
Homes, 2007)
Take action
Save energy
• Don’t leave appliances on stand-by
• Turn down the temperature of your house
Campaign
• Join the i count campaign www.icount.org.uk
Care for God’s creation!
Useful websites
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change
www.ipcc.ch
A Rocha
www.arocha.org
Living Lightly 24:1
www.livinglightly24-1.org.uk
Stop Climate chaos
www.stopclimatechaos.org
Reflection
“How many are your works,
O LORD! In wisdom you
made them all; the earth is
full of your creatures. May
the glory of the LORD
endure forever; may the
LORD rejoice in his works –
he who looks at the earth,
and it trembles, who
touches the mountains, and
they smoke.”
(Ps 104: 24, 31-32)