Squids, Fish and Extreme Poverty
As I’m not a regular church goer, I usually find reflection in my Sunday yoga class. This morning was different though. Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori wrote a though provoking piece about the interconnectedness of poverty and climate change in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle.
Excerpts:
“Before I became a priest, I was a professor of oceanography. One of the things I learned was that oceanographers couldn’t just study squid or fish in isolation. We had to study interconnected systems…”
“Two of the most significant crises facing our world — climate change and deadly poverty — offer an example of such interconnectedness. By understanding how the two crises, and the people they affect, are connected, we can begin to understand how humanity can triumph over both…”
You can read the full piece here.
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