Quakers and the climate change emergency

Chris Walker talks about our responsibilities

by Chris Walker 5th November 2009

The Climate Safety report, by the UK’s Public Interest Research Centre, paints a dark picture. It predicts that the Arctic could have an ice-free summer by 2011-2015, eighty years ahead of predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This, it claims, could be the first falling domino in a series of the ocean’s increased heat absorption, melted permafrost, forest fires, drought, and in short would result in runaway climate change. Current rates of ice-melt mean that climate change is not just a prediction, but a contemporary crisis.