Values and sustainability
Bill Shaw and Sylvia Sanderson reflect on attending a seminar on sustainability when they were ‘travelling in the ministry’ in New Zealand
Jeanette Fitzsimons, one of the key speakers in the seminar, was the recent co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009. The title of her session posed a question: ‘What are we trying to sustain?’ Her answer, most emphatically, was ‘values’. We, as Quakers, have to appeal to that of God in people, but we must, also, be unafraid of shocking them with the facts that are becoming more and more clear with the impending problems we, as a species, are facing globally. She is a grandmother, and will campaign for her grandchildren and their right to exist and will not compromise for the sake of ‘business as usual’.
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