George McKibbon,
Environmental Planner, McKibbon Wakefield Inc.
Let’s pray: may the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and Redeemer. Amen.
Thank you for the opportunity to deliver this
sermon to you today. This opportunity comes at a perilous time: we
are failing to address the threats arising from a warming climate.
David Wallace-Wells speaks to the dangers facing us in his book
entitled: The Uninhabitable Earthi.
I can summarize his analysis visually as three successively larger
rings each fitting within the other. The inner ring identifies what
is incontrovertible: the world’s climate is warming. This inner
ring is surrounded by a second larger ring, within which he describes
the results of this warming: species lost, wildfire such as that
occurring this weekend in California, extreme weather such as the
winds that are driving the wildfires in California, flooding, rising
sea levels etc. linear results. In the larger third ring are less
well understood and tipping points, loss of agricultural
productivity, permafrost melting, uninhabitable landscapes, failed
societies, climate refugees, etc. non-linear complex tipping points
where the landscape character changes substantially and possibly
irrevocably.
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