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The unharmed house behind illustrates that the poor are more
vulnerable.
Is climate change the greatest threat to tackling poverty?
Mike Wiggins 7th March 2010
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Rita’s story “I was just married when the big men came and took all the trees, even though they belonged to us. Then the land started flooding and washed away the good soil. This old lady here says there weren’t any floods in her childhood. And now we have droughts coming more and more [frequently]. Diseases that hit our children that we’d never seen before – trouble with their eyes, and with the breathing. One by one the insects started disappearing. It was when our crops failed and we saw the bees lying on the ground desperate for water that we really worried”
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Giodone’s story
“We used to know when it would rain, but now we don’t. We don’t know when to plant our crops. We asked the government and the NGOs for help, but they didn’t know what to do. We went back to the old ways. We learned from the very old men and women how to feed ourselves from the beginning.”
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Albutou’s story
“When I was a young girl, my mother told me to prepare for the big drought. She said it comes when the young girls become women, and maybe once more only in their lifetime, so we have to save food to survive that year. . .
We have had drought ever since I can remember. And these last 7 years have all been drought. We’ve lost our cattle, and our crops have all failed. This area used to have grass. Now it has all gone. Sometimes we survive on the roots and the thorny grass. We are so ashamed.”
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Why is a Christian development agency involved with climate change?
Partners reporting weather changes & asking for help
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"Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you? "
"I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Matthew 25v44-45
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What does the science say?
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temp riseVariations of the Earth’s surface temperature for the past 1,000 years
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What is causing the temperature rise?
The greenhouse effect is unequivocal
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CO2 Sources
Fossil fuels Deforestation
Agriculture Cement production
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• weather related disasters doubled in 10 years
• due to increased severe weather, floods, storms
• increase mainly & medium-scale ‘forgotten’ disasters
• geophysical disasters unchanged
Climate disasters are increasing
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Other findings
More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists have warned.
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Methane released from thawing sea beds
Hundreds of thousands of funnels of methane bursting out of the sea.
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Dead oceans
All fish and seafood gone by 2048 (Science: 2007)
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UK Met Office: world heading for 5-7oC rise
• mass extinction• ocean acidification• brutal heat waves• 1-2m sea level rise• >100 million climate refugees• >1/3 planet desertified• ½ the planet in drought• loss of glacier water to 1Bn people
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Impact of climate change on the majority world
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Climate impacts
Extreme weather
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Climate impacts
More floods
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Climate impacts
More intense hurricanes
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Climate impacts
More drought
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Climate impacts
Displacement
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Climate impacts
Desertification
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Climate impacts
More disease
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Climate impacts
Food insecurity
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Climate impacts
Rising sea levels
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The cost of responding
Respond now: 1% of global GDP/ yr
Respond later: 15% - 20% GDP/ yr
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What does the bible say?
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? . . . Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place?”Job 38
We should care because God does
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Restored relationships
Stewardship
“There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.”
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Love our neighbours
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind . . . And . . . Love your neighbor as yourself.” Mtt 22:37-39
“I was hungry and you gave me food, thirsty and you gave me drink . . . sick and you took care of me” Mtt 25:35-36
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Our eternal destiny
We know that the whole of creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth. Rom 8:19-22
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What can we do about it?
Pray
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Campaign
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Give
North Niger: Wells and dikes
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Restore soil
Burkina Faso
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Cot Darat, Indonesia
Growing crops on salty soil
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Flood escape platform
Indonesia
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Live more simply
Use less energy Travel less Consume less