67. Climate Memo Mondays, #67, March 21, 2022
Bits of Good News
Shalom Center, youth and elders meet 3-28
Urgency: methane emissions and sea levels rising faster than realized.
Growing awareness of connection of population and climate growth.
Exodus Alliance Weekly #4: Climate Elders 3-17-22
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On the Shabbat before Passover, known as Shabbat haGadol, the Great Shabbat, a special prophetic reading is included in the morning service. The passage comes from the Prophet Malachi, the last of the ancient Hebrew Prophets. Speaking 2500 years ago, Malachi's message has been remembered through the millennia and seems especially relevant in our own time. His words follow (translated by Rabbi Waskow). . . .
For the last decade or so, teens and youth have been courageously stepping into leadership of the climate movement. With names like Xiye, Irsa, and Greta, and movements like Fridays For Future, Youth Climate Strike, Sunrise Movement, and Jewish Youth Climate Movement, Gen Z has been showing the world that the next generation will fight for all of our future with incredible dedication, vision, and prophetic voice. At the same time, there are climate elders, on whose shoulders this generation stands. Elders who have been growing, seeding, and inspiring for many decades. As Malachi understood so clearly then, it will be the hearts of elders and youth turning towards each other in our day - learning from and honoring one another - that will make this movement maximally powerful and effective.
With that in mind, you are warmly invited to attend our upcoming program on 3/28 at 7:30pm, with luminary elders of the climate movement, Bill McKibben (Third Act, 350.org), Joanna Macy (The Work That Reconnects), and Rabbi Arthur Waskow (The Shalom Center, Exodus Alliance) in conversation together.
Moderated by a younger climate leader and hosted by Third Act, Exodus Alliance, and GreenFaith, this discussion will center the deep wisdom and prophetic perspectives of these generational leaders, as they share about past, present, and future of the climate movement and the world they’ve dedicated their lives to building. You won’t want to miss it!With blessings and gratitude to be doing this work together,— Rabbi Nate
The urgency of such meetings worldwide was emphasized by PBS Newshour 2-23-22.
Much more methane being emitted than realized. Sea levels rising much faster than known. NOAA.
Growing Awareness by Population Connection of Congruence of Family Planning and Climate Mitigation: Population Connection (Sept. 2021).
John Seager. “President’s Note.” “…vast swaths of our planet…are racing toward levels of heat and humiditywhere ‘it’s no longer possible to be able to sweat fast enough to prevent overheating.”
Marian Starkey. “Editor’s Note.” “Fertility decline and slowing population growth present opportunities for the U.S. to reduce climate changing emissions, lift people out of poverty, close the inequality gap, and protect…our planet’s natural resources for future generations” (2).