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“Laudato Si’: A Framework for
Climate Justice”
A Catholic Climate Covenant Webinar
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Laudato Si’: A Framework for Climate Justice
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington
Katelyn Roedner Sutton
Moderator: Dan Misleh, Executive Director, Catholic Climate Covenant
Edgar Garibay
Laudato Si
Guideline for Creating Sustainable Communities
for
ALL People of Our God & King
Sylvia Hood Washington, OFS, PhD, ND, MSE, MPH, HTP
N.2 Laudato Si
• This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on
her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has
endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters,
entitled to plunder her at will.
• The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in
the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and
in all forms of life.
• This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the
most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail”
List of Published Articles:
Mrs. Block Beautiful: African American Women and the Birth of the Urban
Conservation Movement, Chicago, Illinois, 1917–1954
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington
May 2008: 13-23.
Interview with Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D. and Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D.
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington
Mar 2010: 1-6.
Birth of a Sustainable Nation, The Environmental Justice and Environmental
Health Movements in the United States
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington
Jun 2010: 55-60.
Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan: Interview with David Pellow, Ph.D.
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington
Apr 2016: 53-58.
The Legal Discourse Surrounding the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan: Interview
with Sheila R. Foster
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington
Apr 2016: 59-64.
Please Submit Your Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Research Articles
http://www.liebertpub.com/manuscript/env
N.21.
Industrial waste and chemical products utilized in
cities and agricultural areas can lead to
bioaccumulation in the organisms of the local
population, even when levels of toxins in those places
are low. Frequently no measures are taken until after
people’s health has been irreversibly affected.
A critical peer-reviewed journal
Multidisciplinary analysis, debate, and discussion focused on
the interdisciplinary study of environmental threats to public
health from at least one of the following perspectives:
history, sociology, economics, public health, law, urban
planning, public policy, grassroots groups and NGOs, and or
environmental engineering/science.
Editor-in-Chief
Sylvia Hood Washington, OFS,
PhD, ND, MSE, MPH, HTP
Please Submit Your Environmental Justice
and Climate Justice Research Articles
http://www.liebertpub.com/manuscript/env
NOW Looking for Faith Based Articles
Informed by Laudato Si
The Healing Touch of Tau
A Catholic - Franciscan
Environmental Health Mission Organization
• 501C-3 in Formation (Illinois) will have a national scope
• Will Serve Environmental and Climate Justice Communities Suffering
from or have a higher risk of Environmental Health Disparities
• Incarcerated Pregnant Women
• Children in Orphanages (with Asthma)
• Superfund Communities
• Will Provide Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (proven) that
can help
• Address environmental health issues like
• Asthma
• Heat Stroke
• Address issues that are known to exacerbate environmental health problems
• Stress
Climate Change and Farmworkers: Environmental
Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley
Katelyn Roedner Sutter
Regional Director/Environmental Justice
Program Manager
Edgar Garibay
Stanislaus Program Coordinator
What we do…
 Advocacy
 Community
 Parish
Central Valley Air Quality Coalition – Clean Air Action Day 2015
Welcome to San Joaquin Valley: A Land of
Contradictions
 250 miles from
Stockton to Bakersfield
 4 million residents –
almost half Latino
 Fruit basket of the world –
230 crops
 High food insecurity,
high poverty
https://www.epa.gov/sanjoaquinvalley
Environmental Justice in San Joaquin Valley
 Air Quality
 3 of the 5 worst cities in US for air quality are in SJV
 1 in 6 kids diagnosed with asthma before 18
 Water Infrastructure
 Resource Contamination
 Drought
Orchards near Turlock, California
Farmworkers in San Joaquin Valley
 Most of California’s 400,000+ farmworkers are in San Joaquin Valley
 Latino, male with a family, undocumented,
no high school diploma
 Earns about $20,000 a year
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/article21686460.html
Climate Change and Farmworkers
 Air Quality
 Trucks, farm equipment, pesticides, dust, field burning, manure, inadequate
housing
 Drought
 Fallow fields, lower crop
yield, fewer jobs
 Extreme Heat
 2016 hottest year on record?
KQED California Report: “Mendota: Cantaloupe Center of the World”
Monica’s Story
Today, however, we have to realize that a true
ecological approach always becomes a social approach;
it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the
environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and
the cry of the poor.
- Laudato Si’ 49
Almond blossoms in Ripon, CA
Thank You!
Katelyn Roedner Sutter
[email protected]
Facebook.com/EJProject
www.ccstockton.org
Edgar Garibay
[email protected]
@EJStockton
www.ejstockton.org
Questions ?
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