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Notes Introduction 1 For the detailed report, see Frederick R. Wilson (ed.), The San Antonio Report (Geneva: WCC, 1990), pp. 52– 68. See also ‘The Church of England’s Seven-Year Plan on Climate Change and Environment’ at http://www. shrinkingthefootprint.cofe.anglican.org/misc_li…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 9 Postscript: The climate change debate continues

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Postscript: The climate change debate continues A few months after the end of this series of Ebor Lectures on climate change, the world gathered in Copenhagen for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 15 as it was known. Along with climate pressure groups, high-…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8d Responses to questions

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Responses to questions Q: You touched briefly on over-population in the world. China has imposed a one child policy for years, without which they would be in serious trouble now. Is this something that should be considered elsewhere?…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8c Local and global initiatives

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Local and global initiatives But like all apocalyptic visions, painting this picture, which depicts a real threat, undermines the need to create a different future. There are new technologies that can help to make that different future possible. Denmark already gets 20 per cent o…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8b Changing contexts

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Changing contexts Now, a little bit of autobiography. I am a child of the 1960s, a baby boomer, and therefore I am part of the luckiest generation that has ever grown up in this country, and probably in any of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8 Apocalypse now: Global equity and sustainable living – the preconditions for human survival

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Apocalypse now: Global equity and sustainable living – the preconditions for human survival I have taken the theme of apocalypse quite deliberately. People accuse those who are worried about the state of our world of talking apocalyptically and spreading gloom and doom, and I thi…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 7e Competing public issues

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Competing public issues The discussion on voice is linked into maintaining a profile for the issue at stake. What sets this particular discourse on climate change and the common good apart from those other issues and global flows is the extent to which it calls into question our …

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 7d From global flows to paradoxical umbrellas

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From global flows to paradoxical umbrellas The temporal and spatial nature of the debates concerning climate change and its likely consequences effectively means that this theme is a theological global flow. That label is most closely associated with the work of Robert Schreiter,…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 7c Reading the signs of the times

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Reading the signs of the times The spirited manner in which Northcott writes exemplifies the vocation of a public theologian as a connected critic. There is a pressing imperative to discern the signs of the times. The occasional nature of a public theology requires this capacity,…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 7b By way of example…

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By way of example… There is plentiful scope for this theme of climate change and the common good to become the equivalent of a case study once its theological legitimacy is established. For it to perform this kind of task there should be some criteria for evaluation…

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 7 Exploring a public theology for here on earth

by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper

Exploring a public theology for here on earth The very nature of a public theology is to engage with occasional issues which grab the public concern and require immediate and/ or long-term attention. The common practice is to argue that the purpose of a public theology is to nurt…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 6b Recovering moral agency in a global neighbourhood

by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper

Recovering moral agency in a global neighbourhood Contemporary globalization links people and places thousands of miles apart in a myriad daily exchanges of goods, including food, drink, clothing and energy resources. The governance of these spatially distant exchange relationshi…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 6 The concealments of carbon markets and the publicity of love in a time of climate change

by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper

The concealments of carbon markets and the publicity of love in a time of climate change It was first proposed by John Tyndall in 1859 that greenhouse gases – and especially carbon dioxide – play a role in regulating the diurnal temperature of the earth. In 1938 G. S. Callendar a…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 5d Carbon stabilization and economic development

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Carbon stabilization and economic development There is one elephant in the room that I want to touch on before concluding and that is economic growth. Our leaders, in public at least, accept two imperatives – carbon stabilization and continuing economic development…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 5c Guiding principles for environmental and economic sustainability

by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper

Guiding principles for environmental and economic sustainability There are two guiding principles that seem to me to be self-evident. First, don’t use natural resources faster than they can be replenished by the planet. Second, don’t deposit wastes faster than they can be absorbe…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 5b The urgency of dealing with climate change at the global level

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The urgency of dealing with climate change at the global level Climate change is not a discrete issue to be addressed apart from all the others. The global economy fundamentally drives climate change, and economic strategies will need to be revised if the climate is ever to be st…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 5 Disturbing the present

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Disturbing the present* A friend wrote in a letter to me at New Year 2009 that ‘Today is arguably the first day of the most important year in human history.’ And I agreed. The reason for this is the unique nature of climate change as a human problem that will be dealt with at Cop…

CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 4d The problem of reductionism in science and dualism in religion

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The problem of reductionism in science and dualism in religion Finally, I would like to put our relationship with our environment into a historical, theological and personal context. Why is it that the world’s religions seem to have had so little to say in the climate debate?…

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