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\"church<\/a>One of the most encouraging things going on as far as climate change is concerned is church divestment from fossil fuels.\u00a0 Despite the lack of interest of the ordinary member in the pew in the environment (and lets be honest there isn’t much), church leadership worldwide is getting more concerned.\u00a0 Concerned enough to lead to church divestment by selling their (normally very profitable) stakes in oil, gas and coal companies.<\/p>\n

There are analogies here to slavery.\u00a0 Whilst they are not exact, they are there.\u00a0 Like slavery the church has been both slow on the uptake and leading the charge.\u00a0 A small number of Christians (initially) wanted to abolish slavery seeing the immense human damage it caused.\u00a0 Again there are a small number of Christians who have led the way on the environment.\u00a0 Climate change will cause huge damage to humanity.\u00a0 However, as with slavery there are huge vested interests lined against change.\u00a0 Those who opposed change used the same arguments of economic dependence used today.\u00a0 We couldn’t manage economically without slaves and we cannot without fossil fuels.\u00a0 Those in the 1800’s had got used to cheaper clothes and sugar due to the use of slaves.\u00a0 The analogy is obvious.\u00a0 It took a lot of guts to oppose the economic system then and it does now.<\/p>\n

Church divestment in fossil fuels seems to me an act of faith as was Christian opposition to slavery.\u00a0 It seemed like madness at the time but was the right thing to do.\u00a0 There is one major difference though, the number of slaves seemed infinite.\u00a0\u00a0 Fossil fuels will run out one day.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.<\/em>” Heb 11v1<\/p>\n

Church divestment so far (not exhaustive).<\/p>\n

Church of Sweden
\nChurch of England
\nWorld council of churches
\nURC Scotland
\nUniting Church in Australia
\nUnited Church of Christ
\nQuakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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