A very large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a volcanic island of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean, began on 14 January 2022. Hunga Tonga is 65 km north of Tongatapu, the country’s main island. The eruption caused tsunamis in Tonga, Fiji, American Samoa and along the rim of the Pacific ocean; tsunami warnings were issued...
Category: Eco-justice and environmental
(Netflix streaming and cinemas) (scroll down to downloadable PDF file) Engage with culture without disengaging your faith. Genre: Fictional ‘documentary’? drama? Dark comedy? Sci-fi?Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett (and many more!!)Rating: M (language, some sexual content, graphic nudity and drug content)Director: Adam McKayWriters: Adam McKay, David Siroto Netflix synopsis: Kate Dibiasky...
From #Greenfaith It’s time for people of faith to give up on hope as a strategy for climate justice, and instead to embrace resistance. Register for 9 December Welcome Call to get connected and involved. On this call, you will be introduced to the GreenFaith strategy and theory of change, as well as how you...
Everyday climate choices. While the Federal Coalition Government (Liberals and Nationals) delay and dither, here’s what the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is doing for climate change – click here. We can all play our part but Government has particular responsibility to take a strategic lead. Watching with more than passing interest to see what happens...
Originally published in The Guardian September 2021 The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion have jointly warned of the urgency of environmental sustainability, its impact on poverty, and the importance of global cooperation. Global Christian leaders have joined forces to warn that the world is facing a...
The Guardian reports that Government MPs are urging Scott Morrison to fund chaplains in every school, saying global warming alarmism is causing “mental health problems” in young. In the Coalition party room on Tuesday, Liberal MP Andrew Wallace compared children’s fear of climate change with the threat of nuclear annihilation in the 1970s and 80s,...
MORE than 10,000 South Australians signed a petition, tabled in parliament, calling on the state to declare a climate emergency. Margaret Hender, 70, of Modbury Heights, said she started the petition with a few friends in 2019, when former Greens MLC Mark Parnell’s motion to declare a climate emergency passed the upper house. Together they...
A new report from the United Nations global body on climate science is a “code red for humanity”. This was the declaration of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres upon the release of the sixth Amendment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In the new report the IPCC warns that the earth could be...
The SA Dialogue of the Roman Catholic and Uniting Churches has produced a new resource, “Crying Out” which explores the Statement from the Heart and care for the environment. The study has four sessions, and offers members of congregations and people of faith to reflect, in the light of their faith traditions, on the deep...
The most severe heat wave in the history of the Pacific Northwest and Canada gripped the region in all-time record-breaking triple-digit heat at the end of June. The heat wave was due to a major heat dome, or sprawling zone of high pressure, and bulging jet stream that sent hot air flowing into the region for several days....
