A message from Leigh Newton I write as a Corresponding Member of the UCA SA Environmental Action Group (EAG) and as a representative of the multi-faith organisation, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC). I wish to invite your congregation(s) to participate in a letter-writing campaign to Prime Minister Scott Morrison about the need for...
Category: Eco-justice and environmental
An article in The Guardian by Adam Morton and Graham Readfearn, 9th August 2021 Australian scientists have stressed it is “not too late” to take action to stem the worst of the climate crisis and called on leaders to “wake up” after a landmark global science report found widespread and rapid changes were already occurring...
(originally posted on The Conversation. The photo depicts two threats to the Great Barrier Reef: coal ships anchored near Abbot Point and a flood plume from the Burdekin River (February 2019); such plumes can carry pollutants and debris to the Great Barrier Reef. Photo: Matt Curnock) After much anticipation, the World Heritage Committee on Friday 23rd decided...
Source: Australian Religious Response to Climate Change The Prime Minister continues to spin Australia’s emissions reductions as ‘meeting and beating our targets’ and achieving ‘more than most other similar economies’ (!) Evidence from The Australia Institute and others, reported in this article in The Guardian, shows these claims just don’t stack up. ARRCC continues to stand up for...
July 2021: Climate activists have disrupted work on Adani’s (Bravus) rail construction this morning, drawing attention to the role of global banking institutions in financing Adani’s Carmichael coal project.Just days after Adani announced it had struck coal for the first time in the Galilee Basin; Owen O’Reilly, Siobhan Neyland and Claudia Lang blocked traffic moving...
It is now officially Australian law that the Environment Minister has a duty to avoid causing personal injury and death to Australian children from carbon emissions when approving a coal extension project. This is just a part of the growing wave of climate litigation claims #ClimateCrisis Class action to stop planned coal mine extension filed by...
The following dot points have been prepared by Bishop Philip Huggins, President, National Council of Churches, 18 June. The love of God is revealed in the symmetry of Creation, Incarnation and Redemption. In the love of God, we are drawn to notice and cherish all God has made. Jesus, our Incarnate Lord, often used parables...
ARRCC is the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change. All over Australia, people of faith are starting to write letters to Prime Minister Scott Morrison asking for serious climate action. Perhaps you might like to write a letter too. Letters are to be hand-written. Paper letters get opened. And they need to be personal –...
The 2021 theme for World Oceans Day is The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods. The focus is on how the ocean is our life-source and supports humanity and every other organism on Earth. It reminds every one of the major role the oceans have in everyday life. They are the lungs of our planet and a...
On Friday, May 21st, Uniting Church members across the country joined with young people at marches and other events across Australia calling for a more genuine response to climate change. Raúl Sugunananthan, President of the Christian Students Uniting at the University of Sydney also offered this message.To members of the Uniting Church across Australia,I believe...
