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Education and Witness
learning, communicating, teaching, testifying
Knowledge empowers people with our most useful tool: The ability to think and decide.
There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about.
--Bill Nye
- How can we speak boldly against the destruction of the world's resources, without hating, scorning and thus alienating those who disagree?
- How can we find words that will reach other people and move them to useful ideas and action?
Here is one example from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Listen to David Archambault II, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, as he addresses the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland in 2016. His goal is to garner international opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near his reservation.
- How can we speak out against fossil fuels when our own homes and cars use them?
Help and Useful Links
Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) Unity with Nature Committee
- Next Steps in journey to right relationship with creation: https://nextstepsearch.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/next-steps-in-journey-to-right-relationship-with-creation/
- Sustainabilty Queries: http://www.bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/committees/nature/sustainablity.html
- Unity with Nature Resource List; also local meeting minutes on Right Relationship: http://www.bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/committees/nature/rightrelations.html
- Environmental discernment submissions from BYM local meetings: https://unitywithnaturebym.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/bym-unity-with-nature-committee/
- BYM/Unity With Nature List-serv (send request to bymunitywithnature@gmail.com) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bym-unity-with-nature
- BYM Friends’ Listening Post on Sustainability: https://www.facebook.com/UnitywithNatureBYM/
Quaker Earthcare Witness
- QEW home page: http://www.quakerearthcare.org/
- Shared Quaker Statement on Climate Change: http://www.quakerearthcare.org/article/shared-quaker-statement-facing-challenge-climate-change
- Fossil Free Friends: http://www.quakerearthcare.org/article/fossil-free-friends
- Befriending Creation magazine: http://www.quakerearthcare.org/befriending-creation
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
CCAN home page: http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/
Friends Committee on National Legislation
FCNL Energy & Environment web page: http://www.quno.org/areas-of-work/human-impacts-climate-change
Quaker United Nations Organization
QUNO climate website: http://www.quno.org/areas-of-work/human-impacts-climate-change
I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming.
I now just reply with the question: Do you believe in Gravity?
--Neil deGrasse Tyson