Tackling Big Issues: Climate Change

Sunday 18th August 2019 at Highnam Parish Church

Revd Arthur ChampionDiocesan Environmental Adviser

01242 870402achampion@glosdioc.org.uk

“I am here to say, our house is on fire. [...] I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire.”

Greta ThunbergMarch 2019

Christmas Eve 1968 - “Earthrise”

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

1. What does the Bible say?2. What does church tradition say?3. What does current science say?4. To what extent to all three line up and help

us discern what God wants us to do?

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

1. What does the Bible say?2. What does church tradition say?3. What does current science say?4. To what extent to all three line up and help

us discern what God wants us to do?

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Genesis 1: 28

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”

John 3: 16

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”

John 10: 10

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

1. What does the Bible say?2. What does church tradition say?3. What does current science say?4. To what extent to all three line up and help

us discern what God wants us to do?

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

1st September to 4th October

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

Francis of Assisi

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

1. What does the Bible say?2. What does church tradition say?3. What does current science say?4. To what extent to all three line up and help

us discern what God wants us to do?

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

Earth is 4.2 Billion years old, shown as just 24 hours:

12.00 am – Planet Earth begins to form3.30 am - life would have appeared on the Earth11.40 pm - the dinosaurs would become extinct11.59 pm - divergence between chimpanzees and humans3s to midnight - modern humans appear

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Reconstruction of past temperature over the past 1000 to 2000 years using tree-rings, ice cores, coral and other records

“Hockey Stick”

2019

Over the past 545 million years some 30,000 million species are estimated to have evolved but today only 10 – 100 million species are still alive. Over 99% are extinct!

1. What does the Bible say?2. What does church tradition say?3. What does current science say?4. To what extent to all three line up and

help us discern what God wants?

Trident renewal

Dr Gail Marie Bradbrook

PCCs needs to appoint people who care about:1. Worship and teaching 2. Buildings3. Land 4. Community and global 5. Lifestyle

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