….a couple of weeks ago, I had a visitor from the Pacific, who told me about how his island and some of its neighbours were actually going to be uninhabitable in a few years time because of rising water levels ”“ almost certainly connected with climate change.
That brings it home all right. It’s not quite good enough to say it’s all too difficult ”“ or that it’s nothing to do with religion anyway. We’re getting ready for Christmas; and it’s worth remembering that one of the things we celebrate at Christmas is God taking an interest in the real material stuff of this earth, the flesh and blood, and all the things that keep flesh and blood secure ”“ food and shelter and so on. It would be pretty peculiar if we took the world less seriously than God does.
That time frame seems a bit alarmist since I have yet to read of accurately measured rises that are occuring to accomplish this – outside of the Easter message on methane by the PB Schori in, oh, 2008, IIRC. Amazing how memes promulgate.