Facing the realities of climate change
Suppose not only your house was flooded but your country slipped beneath the waves of the ocean. This situation is not fiction but reality for the 12,500 inhabitants of the Island of Tuvalu. Sister Germain Price, CM reports from the “Climate Change”: Conference at Ecumenical Center in Geneva. Follow the recent activities of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations
Since the end of the meeting of the Council on the Human Rights on October 1 there has been increasing talk of “climate change” at the United Nations. First of all a day was organized by the World Council of Churches which was to be followed by a three day forum at the UN.
The numerous speakers and participants underlined two constant themes:
– The increasing pace and intensity of near disasters, earthquakes, typhoons, floods, fires, heat waves, gas blasts in mines observed on a global level this past year
– These catastrophes lead to a deprivation of human rights for the victims both at the moment of the disaster and permanently
The work group at the Ecumenical Center studied the future of several islands who are seeing their land surface progressively narrowing as the level of the ocean rises.
Read the full report at http://www.filles-de-la-charite.org/en/news.aspx?NID=483
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