{"id":1784,"date":"2017-12-04T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?page_id=1784"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T17:24:00","slug":"minute-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?page_id=1784","title":{"rendered":"Minute on the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Durham Friends Meeting Minute of Concern for the Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>approved September 21, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe earth is the Lord\u2019s and all that is in it.\u201d Psalm 24:1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Religious Society of Friends testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship are our guides in dealing with the challenges of global warming and climate change. &nbsp;Durham Friends Meeting supports sustainable relationships among the economic, environmental, and social systems; we understand these to rightly be relationships that emphasize humans as interdependent with and nurturing of the environment and of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Cultivating a deeper awareness of our connections with all of Creation enables us to live more Spirit-filled lives. This awareness reminds us of God\u2019s presence in everything around us, leads us to greater clarity and acceptance of ourselves as God\u2019s creatures. Failure to respect the sanctity and interdependence of all Creation is a root of war, social oppression, and environmental destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Friends&#8217; concerns for simplicity, right sharing of resources and equality lead us to recognize that the effects of global warming desecrate God&#8217;s creation. We, on this day of the United Nations march in New York City, issue an urgent call for Friends to make substantive changes in their lifestyles including:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013reduction in use of fossil fuels for transportation, home heating, electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013reduction of industrial combustion of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013work for public policies that discourage use of carbon-based fuels and encourage use of renewable sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p>We acknowledge there is an urgent need to begin a steady progress towards bringing our lives into right relationship with the community of life on Earth. With this knowledge, and with Friend\u2019s testimonies as our guide, we embrace our responsibility to protect the earth\u2019s life forms and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durham Friends Meeting Minute of Concern for the Environment approved September 21, 2014 \u201cThe earth is the Lord\u2019s and all that is in it.\u201d Psalm 24:1 The Religious Society of Friends testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?page_id=1784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"parent":737,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9rLvf-sM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions\/4472"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}