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Speaking on behalf of the CRC’s 22,000 members, Geernaert, a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (Halifax), stressed that no country can act in isolation regarding the global problem of climate change stressing that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is a spiritual as well as a moral and ethical issueThe president of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) has offered the environment minister suggestions on how to beef up the Clean Air Act, legislation she describes as “tepid.”
“When Canada signed the Kyoto Protocol, we were proud and we saw it as a hopeful document that had the potential to wake us up to the seriousness of our situation,” wrote Sister Donna Geernaert in a Nov. 13 letter to Environment Minister Rona Ambrose.
Where’s Kyoto?
“That Kyoto is not even mentioned in your ‘Clean Air Act’ is disturbing and indicates that from your perspective we can act more slowly. We could not disagree more.”
Speaking on behalf of the CRC’s 22,000 members, Geernaert, a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (Halifax), stressed that no country can act in isolation regarding the global problem of climate change.
“Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is for us a spiritual as well as a moral and ethical issue.”
– Sr. Donna Geernaert
Religious congregations working in the developing world have seen first hand the devastating effects of climate change on thousands of environmental refugees, she said.
The poorest people are the most vulnerable to these effects, she said. “Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is for us a spiritual as well as a moral and ethical issue,” she wrote.
