by Quaker Earthcare Witness | May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 36
by Allen McGrew. Six months before I joined Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee, I was stricken by a nasty infection that got into my blood and precipitated a near-fatal cascade of platelet death, septic shock, that plunged my blood pressure to 35/50,...
by Quaker Earthcare Witness | May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Peace, Volume 36
by Jennie M. Ratcliffe. There are multiple interconnections between conscientious objection to militarism and what we can call the conscientious protection of all life on Earth. Conscientious objection, both to war-making and to militarism that seeks to maintain and...
by Quaker Earthcare Witness | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, March 21, 2023, thousands of people across North America—led by older Americans who are Third Act supporters—gathered inside and outside branches of big banks and at climate-impacted sites as part of Third Act’s 3.21.23 Day of Action to demand that banks...
by Quaker Earthcare Witness | May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Volume 36
by ChatGPT. We asked ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to “give us a 600 word article that answers this question: will humans survive the climate crisis?” This is what it wrote: The climate crisis, also known as global warming, is one of the most pressing...
by Quaker Earthcare Witness | May 3, 2023 | April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Uncategorized, Volume 36
by Liz Robinson. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), people in the US finally have the tools necessary to rapidly decarbonize our lives and help accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. The law provides $369 billion dollars for climate...
