Bear Creek Monthly Meeting Minute on Climate Change

Mar 24, 2011

Bear Creek Friends Meeting, Earlham, Iowa

During the Business Meeting Sunday March 20, 2011, Bear Creek Meeting approved the following minute:

Members of Bear Creek Monthly Meeting, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), are gravely concerned by the refusal of the U.S. Congress to address climate change. We very much appreciate the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency to fulfill their responsibility, as enforced by a recent Supreme Court decision, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as one important way to help mitigate the damage being done to the environment.

While many members of Congress are concerned about the costs that would be incurred to reduce CO2 emissions, that entirely misses the point, which is the catastrophic effects of the resultant increase in temperature from the greenhouse gas effect that will occur if this is not addressed. If the planet is uninhabitable, economics will be meaningless. The efforts of the EPA should not only be supported, but significantly more must be done immediately to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions.

On behalf of Bear Creek Monthly Meeting

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