1. Faith and Climate: Loving Our Planet into a Different Future

2. Introductions Name What moves you in creation?
What do you love about creation?
10 minutes

3. Fire and Ice
Robert Frost 1920

4. Global average temperature
Green dots show the 30-year average of the new PAGES 2k reconstruction. The red curve shows the global mean temperature, according HadCRUT4 data from 1850 onwards. In blue is the original hockey stick of Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1999 ) with its uncertainty range (light blue). Graph by Klaus Bitterman.

5. Last 137 years

6. Geologic CO2 levels

7. CO2 in last12 years

8. Fire and Ice?

9. California on Monday Patrick Rd, Napa Valley.

10. Irma, Jose, Katia 2017

11. Arctic ice cover

12. New York City with 10 foot sea level rise

14. Shifting crops and harvests

15. Shrinking the feast
Healthy chardonnay grapes, left, and sunburned ones.
Photographer: Elin McCoy/Bloomberg

16. Anthropogenic GHGs

18. And the Lord God called the earth creature, and said, Where are you
And the Lord God called the earth creature, and said, Where are you? Genesis 3:9

19. We are on the WAY Questions? Small group conversations
Strength for the journey – possibilities and hope
Collaborative connection, commitment

20. Earthlings, gardeners, stewards
Where do you see the illness of creation in your neighborhood?
What lament do you hear?
What makes you feel helpless? Angry?
What moves you to compassion?
Water, soil, crops, waste, energy, fauna and flora; the least of these…

21. On the WAY Limits, boundary markers Thanksgiving Humility Enough
Creativity

22. Turning and returning Refrigerants ↓ 90 gT Wind turbines ↓ 85
Less food waste ↓ 71
Eat more plants ↓ 66
Restore forests ↓ 61
Educate girls ↓ 60
Family planning ↓ 60
Solar farms ↓ 37
Silvopasture ↓ 31
Rooftop solar ↓ SUM ↓ 525
The other 70 ↓ 526
DRAWDOWN

23. Rooftop solar anywhere!

24. Where will you engage? What will you take home?
Who will be your partners?
Where will you seek change?
What commitments will you make – personally, as a congregation, in the wider community?