An Interfaith Call to Action on Climate Change

Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are warming. The chief cause is human use of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases. Deforestation is also a cause, as is the pollution of oceans. These facts are accepted by the vast majority of the world’s scientists. The damaging impacts of climate change are already extensive. Many of them appear irreversible. If human behavior does not change, these impacts will become far more extreme, resulting in turmoil and suffering on an enormous scale with immense harm to both humans and other forms of life. Earth is one interconnected whole. What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves. Earth is our home. We have nowhere else to go—and time is running out. This problem can be solved with the technology and resources that we already have, coupled with restraint of consumption. Significant progress has been made, in which religious and interfaith groups have been an important factor.