Ban-Ki Moon Wants Religious Leaders to Join Fight Against Climate Change

Published November 06, 2009 @ 07:41AM PT

Visiting Windsor Castle in England, UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon explained to the gathered crowd of religious leaders from a wide variety of faiths that "you are the leaders who can have the largest, widest and deepest reach." Running half of the world's schools, and being among the world's biggest investors and opinion makers, he explained that religious leaders have the opportunity to make a huge difference in combating climate change, around the world, and in every culture.

The Church of England is already promising to cut carbon emissions by 42 percent by 2020, whilst there are Muslim initiatives to make the Hajj pilgrimage more environmentally sound. But perhaps we're not looking sufficiently far into the nature of belief. A man was recently sacked from his job in England due to his beliefs about climate change. He appealed and will now be allowed to contest the sacking on grounds of discrimination due to “religion, religious belief or philosophical belief.” Religion leaders can help fight climate change and would be a huge ally to have onside, but many already have the feel strongly enough in their beliefs to fight it themselves, even when it puts their job and livelihood at risk.

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