What Will Be Our Answer? Written by Guest Contributor, Rev. Eric Rucker I’m kneeling on the ground outside a college classroom next to a young man who is having a panic attack - tears streaming, chest heaving for breath. My class session just ended, and he’s panicking because of the documentary we just watched about climate change. He and his classmates were confronted with a terrifying fact: the earth’s climate is undeniably changing due to burning fossil fuels, and if societies don’t rapidly transition to renewable energy, he will experience cataclysmic consequences in his lifetime. Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve comforted a student in this setting, nor will it be the last. As a pastor and teacher, one of the hardest things I do is educate young people about climate change. It’s scary and uncomfortable. It would be easier to avoid it. But I’m convinced that we have an urgent moral obligation to tell youth the truth about climate change, the issue that will probably most affect their adult lives. | |
