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We need to acknowledge our Yearly Meeting’s efforts, largely through FCNL, to prevent the kind of climate disruption we are already experiencing. In the 1990s, when our Yearly Meeting was a strong supporter of the National Religious Partnership’s campaign to educate our nation’s faith communities about climate change, we were told that this day would come if our nation continued with business as usual, and it has.
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And in March, the President of the UN General Assembly warned us that “we are the last generation that can prevent irreparable damage to our planet.” Last October, the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told us there were only twelve years (now closer to eleven) to keep global warming from causing severe droughts, storms, floods, extreme heat, and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
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Before going to college, she’s taking a “gap year” to work full time as a trainer for the Sunrise Movement, a national, youth-led climate justice organization that is building a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.Ībby will spend the morning with high school Young Friends, and have a session with them in the early afternoon to which Young Adult Friends will also be invited.Īt dinnertime on Thursday, there will be a designated “Sunrise” table where Friends can meet Abby and talk with her about what led her to join the Movement, and its strategies for promoting a Green New Deal and climate justice in our communities and nation.Īnd please consider coming to Friday’s workshop on The Climate Crisis, Economic Justice, and Integrity, that will feature discussions of these issues in inter-generational trios. On Thursday at Annual Sessions we will be joined by Abigail Leedy, a recent graduate of Philadelphia’s Central High and an attender at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.