Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Climate change: What I could do
As a professor of agricultural meteorology and climatology, I taught graduate students about how climate change could affect crops, and I did research as part of the national effort to understand how agricultural systems contribute to climate change. What brought the subject home to me in a very direct way was when I read about a record-setting heat wave in Pakistan and India that killed hundreds of people. I felt such compassion for their plight that my heart was deeply moved.
While researching other major heat waves, I learned from the World Health Organization that “climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually.” This led me to pray regularly about climate change and the progressive nature of mankind. I also prayed for God to show me how to be benign in my actions and to be able to follow my conscience in supporting solutions to this global concern, while also respecting those with other points of view.
To me, conscience is one’s inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action. While my conscience might direct me to somewhat different conclusions about right behavior than another person’s, I recognized from Mary Baker Eddy’s writings that I needed to follow my highest sense of right to support healing.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
July 23, 2012 &
July 30, 2012
double issue
View Issue
-
Letters
Steven Price, Blanche Saul, Candace Gibson
-
Rejoicing together
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
-
Borderless community
Walter Rodgers
-
How big is good?
Nancy Mullen
-
A rising tide lifts all boats
Jeff Ward-Bailey
-
My first interfaith experience
Bonnie Mitchinson
-
Embracing communities worldwide
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
-
Climate change: What I could do
Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey
-
Delight in international giving
Peter Dry
-
Praying for a school community
Suzanne Smedley
-
The grizzly bear delusion
Glenn Williams
-
Salvation
Brian Kissock
-
Unlimited resources
Heather Howland Kany
-
Planted in a new path
Dorothy H. Thomson
-
Love's leading
Tad Blake-Weber
-
Seeking the way
Linda Gridley Lane
-
The answer
Barbara Whitewater
-
Solutions
Charlotte Bushnell
-
Marjorie and the Dream
Phyllis W. Zeno
-
Focused thought
Richard Albins
-
God made you perfect
Megan Meehan
-
What are you going to be when you grow up?
Leide Lessa
-
Sign me up!
Bob Minnocci
-
I shared with my professor
Bruce Matouka
-
Your questions about church
Answers offered by Tim Myers and Michelle Nanouche
-
'A spiritual model of life'
William Otieno
-
The 'more excellent way'
Christa Kreutz
-
Finding our God-given freedom
Ann Edwards
-
A healing standard
Mark Sappenfield
-
A summer of 'radical acts'
Jeff Ward-Bailey
-
Lots of Laughs
Madora Kibbe
-
Protected during a fall
Norma P. Cooper with contributions from Elizabeth Gibbons
-
Chest pains overcome
B. James Jokerst
-
Spinal meningitis healed
Charles O'Gorman
-
Spine fracture healed
Brooks Rakos
-
What makes you who you are?
The Editors