The Earth Based Spirituality Action Team

This will be the monthly meeting of the Earth Based Spirituality Action Team – a interfaith group for anyone who sees our Earth as sacred and puts this into action – including Pagans, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, and more – working towards slowing climate change, especially though putting a fair price on carbon emissions.  The facebook event link is here. 

The Earth Based Spirituality Action Team (a chapter of the Climate Change Lobby – CCL) was announced here on the Naturalistic Paganism blog in 2019.   The CCL may be one of the biggest parts of the multi-pronged effort needed if we are going to significantly slow climate change. Here is a quick overview for those of us not already involved.

Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a grassroots nonprofit started here in the United States about ten years ago, which has grown into a into a global organization. Everyone — well, almost everyone — acknowledges we have a huge problem with how we humans pump so much carbon into the atmosphere, in industrialized societies. Everyone knows we need to limit these emissions, but how? One solution that has emerged as the most credible is called “carbon fee and dividend.” The idea is you put a price on carbon pollution, collect a fee from the polluters, and then pay that back to the citizens. That puts economic pressure to change the footing of our economy, and helps the common person cope with the changes. It may only be one piece of the puzzle, but it’s a pretty big piece. That’s the solution that Citizens’ Climate Lobby advocates.