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What Does It Mean To Be Hot?

by Claudia Kern, Chair

It's getting hot in here! What does it mean to you to be living on a warming planet? This is a question that Unitarian Universalists (UUs) across the country have been asking as they have studied both the science and the moral implications of global warming for the past two years. The Study Action Issue (SAI), "The Threat of Global Warming" was adopted at General Assembly (GA) 2004 when UU youth agreed to move their support from a proposed SAI on extinction of species to the proposed SAI on Global Warming.

Two years later, UUs across the country are completing work in their congregations to create the most powerful faith statement on global warming that any religious group has yet articulated. Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (formerly the Seventh Principle Project) encourages Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUUs) to support the passage of a groundbreaking statement of conscience in St. Louis this June.

Global warming is about your future. As the future leaders of our faith, what can you do to create a sustainable planet?

Download the draft Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)Statement of Conscience and read it, and the UU Ministry for Earth response and alternative (PDF, 6 pages). Watch for the final Commission on Social Witness draft that will be amended and voted upon at GA, and be prepared to participate in both processes.
Sign on to the UU Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) Global Warming list serv to share your opinions, ask questions, and offer ideas.
Blog with leaders of the youth climate and energy movement at It's Getting Hot in Here.
Check out the Campus Climate Challenge.
Join UUA President Bill Sinkford on his cybermarch to Stop Global Warming by signing on under his name.
Going to GA in 2006? Check the box, spend an extra $6 and make your GA experience carbon neutral. To learn more, go to Carbon Fund and click on the GA news headline.
Get to know UU Ministry for Earth. Join us with a special student membership or simply let us hear from you about how you see your relationship with this living system we call Earth. You can email us or call 301-588-0944

We are working to build a sustainable and just future for all life on Earth, and we need your insights and your help. Let's connect!

For more information contact youth @ uua.org.

Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.