Fossil fuels are wrecking lives and this is why as Christians we need to do something about it

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’Our calling is clear: we must just stop oil, coal, and gas - all the fossil fuels we have become reliant on,’ says Barbara Echlin.

As Green Christian’s vice chair I am deeply troubled by the state of our beautiful God created home. Our continued use of fossil fuels - oil, coal, and gas - is wrecking lives. This year, homes and farmland in the UK flooded, wild fires raged in Canada, drought led to hunger and starvation in Africa - all made worse by rising temperatures.

If we carry on extracting fossil fuels the whole of nature, our civilisation and billions of lives are at stake. It is immoral and irresponsible to keep on exploring for new sources of fossil fuels. We cannot carry on with “business as usual” hoping someone else will sort out the mess we are making of God’s precious world.

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