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Creation care
“The earth is the LORD’s and
everything in it.”
(Psalm 24: 1)
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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
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Climate change
Consequences of a warmer earth:• Melting arctic sea ice• Melting glaciers• Rising sea levels and
flooding• Drought• Spread of disease• Species extinction
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Climate change
Consequences of a warmer earth:• Desertification• Declining crop yields, malnutrition, hunger• Conflict• Refugees
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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 three-quarters of greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere.”
(The Stern Review, 2006)
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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)
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BMS and the environment
Green solutionsBMS long-term workers, Daveen and Mike Wilson have set up a bee-keeping project in Trapiá, Brazil, to help improve income in the local community and to care for God’s creation.
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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)
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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!
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Useful websites
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change www.ipcc.ch
A Rocha
www.arocha.org
Living Lightly 24:1www.livinglightly24-1.org.uk
Stop Climate chaos www.stopclimatechaos.org
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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)
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