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By Joe Morris. This article appeared in the November issue of Western Friend.
This past year has again brought bad news for our planet: glaciers melting ever faster, the cyclone in China, the paralysis of international agreements over reducing greenhouse gas emission, and here in California, the over 2,000 wildfires that have burned since the beginning of summer. But the involvement of Quakers in Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM) in Earthcare action tells a different story.
Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Unity with Nature (UWN) Committee brought forth a “Responding to the Global Climate Crisis” minute at PYM’s 2007 Gathering, which was approved. In that plenary, the committee was charged with two tasks: gathering the reports from monthly meetings on their actions regarding global warming over the course of 2007-08, and to begin drafting a new testimony on “Harmony with Nature,” in cooperation with the PYM Discipline Committee.
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