This talk was given by the Rev. Geoff Usher.
In March 2009 I went to Japan for the Council meeting of the International Association for Religious Freedom, held at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine near Suzuka.
While in Japan I was given a copy of a book by Ervin Laszlo, entitled “You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen’s Handbook for Living on Planet Earth.”
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The first chapter is entitled “The World in Our Hands”, and I have taken that as the title for this sermon, in which I want to share with you some ideas from Laszlo’s book. It sets out the simple message that we must not wait for fundamental change to come from “above”, from the elected or appointed leaders of contemporary society.
Meaningful change must come from “below”, from the people – the ordinary people like us – who live in those societies.
The complete sermon can found here.
One correction needed: New research https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/509095-study-rules-out-catastrophic-scenarios-from-global-warming-but-the?fbclid=IwAR3x_o_UcEvd8qEtgMLFQBLbSpFKLJynD0ZpZmf2eg9UwEn7j7MD941mlh4
“A four-year effort led by 25 experts in the field has finally been able to give us a better understanding of how sensitive the climate actually is. By combining lines of evidence from physics-based studies, historical temperature records and records from the Earth’s more distant past — such as during the last ice age — we find that if the amount of CO2 doubles in the atmosphere, the world will likely warm between 4.7F and 7F (2.6C and 3.9C)”
And we won’t be in the higher figures in the next 5 years!