Growing Together 
Additional ideas for worship

QUOTES

“...living in balance, living in rhythm, living according to some sort of ... inner harmony, is actually a recipe for being more human rather than less.
I think if we look at the language of the Bible on this, we very often come across a situation where people are judged for not responding to warnings. It's very deeply built in; there are choices we can make, each one of us, to change things now and I think what the Bible and the Christian tradition suggests is that those who have that challenge put before them, but not only the challenge, but the evidence for it, and don't respond, bear a very heavy responsibility before God. 
...the fundamental question is who we are, where do we belong, do we belong anywhere in this world? Because we behave as if we didn’t, and one of the underlying, evasive, moral and imaginative questions that arises in thinking about climate change and the wider environmental agenda is this habit, this ingrained tradition of behaving as if we didn’t belong, as if we were not part of an interactive system, as if we were brains on stalks. So the moral question is not simply ... about what you do, it is about imagining who we are, reviving that sense of being part of a system, not one that imprisons or crushes us, but one in which we become who we are by interaction... we are now in an environment in which local resolution, local decision has to open out into global perspective.” 
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

“We are all part of one planet, threads in the same web of creation. How we live impacts on others around the globe. For example, our lifestyles produce massive amounts of greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming. But the impact of global warming is felt mostly by those who are least able to cope with it, resulting in people being driven from their homes and becoming environmental refugees.
Hysteria and hypocrisy walk in the footsteps of refugees and migrants. The paranoia of wealthy countries is deeply ironic. Their carbon intensive lifestyles are driving global warming, which is likely to become the largest single factor forcing people to flee their homes around the world. There is an obligation on the nations most responsible for historic greenhouse gas emissions, Europe and North America, to make sure that environmental refugees are recognised and protected.
We face a ‘homes-for-lifestyles’ scandal, in which people in poor, vulnerable countries pay with their homes for our lifestyles. The problem will not go away.
We either manage it responsibly or it will manage us. It is neither morally nor legally justifiable for the burden to fall on poor countries.
Yet whilst continuing to pollute the globe, the world’s wealthy are pulling up the drawbridge on refugees. This is a question of justice in adaptation to climate change.”
Andrew Simms, commenting at the launch of the New Economics Foundation's report:
"Environmental Refugees: The Case for Recognition" 2003