Monday, March 18, 2013

Lenten Carbon Fast

Annual Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast
Day 31: What you can do today
100 years ago Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer expanded the Golden Rule
to include all living things.  Think of it as "Golden Rule 1.7."  Now, the fundamental ethical challenge for our generation is to recognize that future generations are no less our neighbors than those who live next door to us today.  Think of it as  Golden Rule 2.0.  If we treated future generations as our neighbors, it would be unthinkable for only six generations of humans to have burned over half the oil and gas reserves that nature took tens of millions of years to create.  How will your church live out Golden Rule 2.0?

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