Bright Now

To help answer this question Operation Noah co-hosted a meeting with Christian Aid at the church at which I’m vicar, St John’s Waterloo, on 24 February. It was attended by around twenty-five Christian organisations involved in different ways in helping the churches to respond to the challenges of climate change. Read more

On the morning of the 12 February I was glued to my computer watching a debate on the environment, live-streamed from the General Synod. This debate was the culmination of a lot of prayer, inspiration and sheer hard work on the part of a few of the Operation Noah board members and many other people. It really mattered to me, to Operation Noah and, I believe, to God, how the debate went. Read more

Great News: climate change is on the agenda at the Church of England General Synod on 12th February.

The purpose of the debate is to challenge the Church to take urgent action on climate change in all areas, including political pressure, disinvestment / reinvestment, adaptation, consumption, poverty and international development. This is the first step in encouraging the Church of England to engage more fully in tackling climate change and the hope is that it will lead to further debates, specifically concerning fossil fuel disinvestment. Read more

‘To know and not to act, is not to know.’

Wang Yang-ming (Neo-Confucian philosopher, 1472 –1529)

How consistent are we in aligning what we think with how we act? I know this second mug of coffee may keep me awake tonight, but I squash that knowledge and slurp away. I know my cheesecake is full of fat – I stirred in the cheese – but I still help myself to another slice. My own tiredness and body mass is my own problem. But what about collective denial, when the result could be global disaster? Read more

by Nicky Bull, Operation Noah Board member

I see Operation Noah’s Bright Now campaign on church disinvestment from fossil fuels as an important wake-up call to the Churches in the UK, encouraging them to think again about the issues surrounding climate change and to put their capital where their gospel is!

I got on board with faith-based environmentalism through a deep-seated abhorrence of waste: the littering of the landscape with supermarket carrier bags; the feeding of too many animals with crops that could be feeding the starving; and the apparent ease with which those in the global North throw away food and possessions when they have simply had enough of them and want something new. Read more

by Reggie Norton, Operation Noah Board member

To grasp the situation of the earth in relation to climate change, and to be able to have an idea of what is likely to happen in the next 50 to 100 years, one has to have a broad vision. One must find out what has happened not only in the UK but in the rest of the world – and it soon becomes clear that climate change has done an enormous amount of damage in the last 30 years, affecting many millions of people and causing thousands upon thousands of deaths.

We rightly start to worry not only about floods and droughts but also about the effect of climate change on biodiversity, the growing problem of shortage of water for agriculture, food shortages because of crop failures, damage to fisheries from the acidification of the oceans, the continuing loss of ice coverage in the Arctic, the release of methane in some countries – and a host of other important things. Read more