Posted on 06/30/2005 6:40:10 PM PDT by sionnsar
One of the Church’s leading bishops on environmental issues has warned that we are facing a “crisis of global proportions” with far-reaching ramifications for poverty-stricken nations.
The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones, criticised the Government for failing to provide a lead in tackling the problem of carbon emissions or to introduce renewable resources of energy on the scale needed. He said that the Government’s poor record on climate change undermined Tony Blair’s claim that he wants to put the issue to the top of the G8 agenda.
Bishop Jones commented that Government policy on energy efficiency, reduction and conservation is seen as ad hoc and lacking the investment needed. He urged the two most senior government figures to reveal whether or not they have in place a strategy and a timetable to deliver on these issues.
Problems facing African nations, such as poverty through droughts and floods, were inextricably linked to climate change, he told the House of Lords.
“What is the point at Gleneagles of taking steps to reduce poverty with one hand, but by refusing action on climate change, to increase poverty with the other hand,” said Bishop Jones.
“The people with the power to act are the most protected from feeling its impact; and those who do feel the devastating winds of climate change are the poor and are powerless to do anything about it,” the bishop said.
He also criticised the announcement by the government earlier this month that it plans to spend over £500million between 2002 and 2008 on emerging renewable and low carbon technologies. The bishop questioned whether this figure adequately addressed the problems posed by climate change.
Bishop Jones’s stand was welcomed by the aid agency, Tearfund, which said that Britain needed to exert a strong influence on the other G8 leaders at Gleneagles. “If the G8 leaders are unable to act on something as fundamental as this in affecting world poverty, who on earth can?” asked Andy Atkins, Tearfund’s Advocacy Director.
The agency said that the international community needed to set a cap on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and decide how to keep below that level.
The effects of climate change include food insecurity, reduced water availability, ill health, loss of biodiversity and an increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
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It's going to get a lot hotter for Anglicans in the West if they keep on going the way they're going.
"One of the Church’s leading bishops on environmental issues...."
Huh?
What would Jesus recycle?
(I apologize, Lord, and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea)
We have moonbats like this in the Catholic Church, too. They are such an embarassment.
Wonder what caused the drought and floods of past centuries?
One of the Church’s leading bishops on environmental issues
What a glaring example of mammarial terminals on a boar.
**...Church’s leading bishops...**
Notice how reverent reporters are when the cleric in question chimes so harmoniously with the reporter's own prejudices?
In Christ,
Deacon Paul+
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