Mass lobby urges action on climate
Quakers took part in a mass lobby of parliament on 26 June
More than 100 Quakers from England, Scotland and Wales came to Westminster last week to take part in ‘The Time is Now’, a mass lobby of parliament urging MPs to take action on the climate crisis. Faith representatives, including a former archbishop and a young Quaker, addressed the gathering, saying that the time to act is now.
Approximately 14,000 people lined the streets around parliament to hold conversations with MPs on the need for government action.
Faith groups gathered at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square to share stories of climate action. Then representatives from across the religious spectrum led an interfaith ‘Walk of Witness’ past Downing Street to an event in Church House, central offices of the Church of England. There, alongside Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim representatives, seventeen-year-old Quaker Anya Nanning Ramamurthy from north London addressed the gathering.
She called on faith bodies to do more to support young people campaigning for climate justice. She said: ‘To confront the injustice of climate breakdown, we need to be active. We need to voice our views loud and clear, engage politically, and hold our leaders to account. We must build the world as we want to see it. God is within every one of us and therefore we must act like it.’
