Climate Change

Stories about division and conflict among religious groups are hardly news because they are all too common. So examples of diverse religious groups joining efforts are all the more important because of their rarity. The call to reduce greenhouse gas production 80% by 2050 should be old news by now, but the current support for that effort from religious groups in Massachusetts is noteworthy because of the remarkable diversity of the groups involved. From Unitarian Universalists to Quakers, from mainline Protestants to the Armenian church and beyond Christianity to Jews and Muslims, religious organizations within the state have found common ground and formed the Massachusetts Interfaith Climate Action Network, calling upon believers to take up the cause of caring for the planet with a religious zeal.

The Episcopal Public Policy Network
Policy Alert

"This cycle – poverty that begets climate change, and vice versa – threatens the future of all people, rich and poor alike, and of all things in the world that God so loves."
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori

The Episcopal Public Policy Network
Policy Alert

"The destruction we see around us is not an accident. But then, neither is the fact that you and I have been placed here to do something about it."
-Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston