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L is for Lifestyle, not just for Lent Week II

L is for Lifestyle, not just for Lent Week II. Questions. Climate Change http://royalsociety.org/Climate-change-controversies/ www.facebook.com and search for The John Ray Initiative. Questions.

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L is for Lifestyle, not just for Lent Week II

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  1. L is for Lifestyle, not just for LentWeek II

  2. Questions • Climate Change • http://royalsociety.org/Climate-change-controversies/ • www.facebook.com and search for The John Ray Initiative

  3. Questions 2. ‘Would you agree that if climate change was due to natural factors alone, lifestyle choices would inevitably be different, eg no need to focus on carbon footprint?’

  4. IF……….. • We knew for certain that burning fossil fuels did not release CO2 into the atmosphere • We were sure that there was no link between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperature of the earth • Burning fossil fuels did not release other harmful pollutants into the atmosphere • It were possible to explore for oil, and extract it, without damaging the land/sea that it is under • We were sure that supplies of oil/gas/coal were limitless • We could de-couple oil from war, violence and human rights’ abuses • We could guarantee no oil spills • We could guarantee continuing good relations with the countries that supply our energy…

  5. Other Questions • How much energy is consumed by recycling? • Are we going to live on this earth or a ‘new’ earth? • Why is having chickens a Christian thing to do? Is there any biblical reason for having pigs? • Could the church please start a smallholding with allotments for folks to work, and maybe chickens?

  6. Me My church My community My country My world Our Circles of Responsibility

  7. Four areas for change • The Food we eat • The Way we travel • The Energy we use • The Things we throw away

  8. Food

  9. The Issues • Ownership of food in hands of a few multinationals • Diet and health • Animal welfare • High energy and resource use • Use of pesticides, chemicals and impact on health • Climate change • Dietary changes amongst Chinese and Indian expanding middle-class • Speculation in commodity futures • Agrofuels • GMOs • IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes • Food waste

  10. Local and GYO

  11. Organic

  12. Buying abroad

  13. Fish

  14. JRI/Redcliffe College Environment day Conference: Food FuturesOrganised in partnership with John Ray Initiative, CMS and the Agricultural Christian FellowshipSaturday 6 March 20109.30am – 4.30pmNewspapers and TV programmes herald the 'end of cheap food', warning us that the global food systems on which we have come depend are increasingly fragile. The cost to other nations and the environment, and the impact on UK food producers, mean that in a few years we will not be living as we do now.The Food Futures Day Conference at Redcliffe College, Gloucester, help us respond by asking what God wants us to learn and how we could personally change and adapt.We will look at what Scripture says about our relationship with food and those that produce it, and at what can be done to improve global production, food security, and patterns of trade. For those of us who do not grow food but do eat it, we will explore the jungle of food ethics and whether 'conscience in the supermarket' is an adequate response to the coming storm.

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