We participated in the Climate Strike.
Youth and young adults led the strike, spoke out and called to the rest of us to get on board. For example, 17-year-old Hallie Turner, who has been speaking on climate change since she was 8, said, "I don’t care how my leaders feel about climate change. … I care that my generation gets to live on a habitable planet." Hallie and other young people out-numbered those of us with gray hair, and gave us hope. It was inspiring to be with them.
Now, we all have to get on board with them. We, too, need to speak out; vote for representatives who care about climate change; dramatically decrease our fossil fuel use at home, at church, at work and traveling; eat a more plant-based diet; remove CO2 from the air by planting trees and composting.
You can start today by bringing your compostable materials to church and putting them in our compost bin outside the kitchen door to the fellowship courtyard.
Learn about how you can bring food scraps and pizza boxes to CUCC
But don’t stop there because we all want “…to live on a habitable planet."