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Group Representing 590 Million Christians Divests From Fossil Fuel

Fri Jul 11, 2014 at 01:54 PM EDT.

"Perhaps recalling the parts of the Bible in which God asks that his followers be good stewards to the Earth, the World Council of Churches, a global coalition of 345 churches moved to no longer invest in oil, gas, or coal companies and urged their members to follow their lead. ...

The move is the biggest one yet by Christian groups attempting to reconcile the damages that climate change is causing with their beliefs to serve the planet well.

In a statement sent from its meeting in Geneva, the group strongly condemned the rampant burning of fossil fuels and its effects on the environment:  


“The World Council of Churches reminds us that morality demands thinking as much about the future as about ourselves– and that there’s no threat to the future greater than the unchecked burning of fossil fuels,” said Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, a global climate campaign that is supporting the divestment effort. “This is a remarkable moment for the 590 million Christians in its member denominations: a huge percentage of humanity says today ‘this far and no further.’”

This isn’t from a fringe group either, the WCC includes many of the biggest churches in the world. The 25 million-member Church of England and the 48 million-member Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church count themselves as members of the umbrella Christian coalition group."

  


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313294/-Group-Representing-Half-Billion-Christians-Divests-From-Fossil-Fuel

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