This edition of UU World examines the complexity of the choices we face in addressing the crisis.

Six UU organizations release joint statement committing to respond to climate-forced displacement.

The film explores the lives and legal case of a group suing the federal government over climate change.

The religious scholar argues that religion has fueled humanity’s denial of climate change and that—even in knowing ours may be a finite future—there are still places to find hope.

May we reconnect to our life-giving, breath-freeing connection

We see a historical pattern that puts everyone in the world in danger. To obtain a safe and dignified life, we need to foster trust, mutual support, and reliance on science.

Rashid Shaikh, Ph.D., is director of science emeritus at the Health Effects Institute in Boston and co-convenor, with Paula Cole Jones, of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Caucus on Climate Justice, a new group focused on the intersections of racial, environmental, and climate injustices.

BIPOC communities hit hardest by environmental racism.

Was COP26 a success? Or a failure? I believe it’s most accurate, if unsatisfying, to answer “both” – and “neither.” Each year since the Convention was adopted in 1994, the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has convened a Conference of Parties (COP),...

People v. Fossil Fuels Demands Biden Stop New Projects

I am a college student, but more urgently, I am a young Unitarian Universalist working to save my future.

Arm's length: What was once a defensive or suspicious expression has now become a gesture of care, an indication of love and protection.

If nothing else, the past few months have definitively put the lie to the idea that late capitalist societies are incapable of seismic transformations on a deadline.

Green Sanctuary 2030: Mobilizing for Climate Justice provides structure, leadership and support, in broad collaboration, for the UU faith community to engage in an ambitious environmental and climate justice

There’s no question about it: The world as we knew it no longer exists. The upheaval to “normal life” caused by the coronavirus might also bring an upheaval to the structures that keep inequalities in place – but it’s not guaranteed. The pandemic has certainly drawn much wider attention to...

More than any other people on this planet, the Marshall Isl

Teen climate activist Sophia Geiger fights for systemic change.

A seed knows how to wait. Most seeds wait for several years before starting to grow; a cherry seed can wait for a hundred years with no problem. What exactly each seed is waiting for is known only to that seed. Some unique trigger-combination of temperature-moisture-light and many other things is...