See Judge Act: CST Security and Economics of Climate Change

 Kevin Moynihan of KM Productions, a Halifax based fully equipped production company, shares “Laudato Si’ + 5: See, Judge, Act”. This review of our progress engaging with the 2015 Encyclical of Pope Francis, “Laudato Si”,under the Catholic Social Teaching tradition of See, Judge, and Act offers a reminder of the need for action on Water Shortage, Climate Change, and Loss of Biodiversity and hope in sharing the work of individuals and organizations involved in taking action today.

 

Sir David Attenborough, renowned British naturalist and broadcaster, presented a warning that the world risks ‘collapse of everything’ without strong climate action to the UN Security Council.

 

“If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security: food production, access to fresh water, habitable ambient temperature, and ocean food chains,” he said, adding “and if the natural world can no longer support the most basic of our needs, then much of the rest of civilization will quickly break down... “People today all over the world now realize this is no longer an issue which will affect future generations,” he said.  “It is people alive today, and, in particular, young people, who will live with the consequences of our actions.”2

Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, spoke, in a recent interview, about how private finance is increasingly aligned behind achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Climate change is an existential threat. We all recognize that, and there’s increasing urgency around it. But the converse is, if you are making investments, coming up with new technologies, changing the way you do business, all in service of reducing and eliminating that threat, you are creating value. And what we have seen increasingly, spurred initially by the Sustainable Development Goals, accelerated by Paris, and then by social movements and governments, is societies putting tremendous value on achieving net zero. Companies, and those who invest in them and lend to them, and who are part of the solution, will be rewarded. Those who are lagging behind and are still part of the problem will be punished.3

We have evidence to see and judge the likely impact of the climate emergency on our health and welfare. Catholic Social Teaching and economic common sense underlie our movement to avoid catastrophe in the lives of our children and grandchildren.

 

References

1	(n.d.). KM Productions. Retrieved February 24, 2021, from http://www.kmproductions.ca/
2	(2021, February 23). World risks 'collapse of everything' without strong climate action .... Retrieved February 24, 2021, from https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/02/1085452
3	(2021, January 21). Mark Carney: Investing in net-zero climate solutions creates value .... Retrieved February 24, 2021, from https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/mark-carney-investing-net-zero-climate-solutions-creates-value-and-rewards