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Climate Change Legislation
Advocacy & Action


A Call to Serve & Safeguard the Poor and Vulnerable People
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LEGISLATIVE SITUATION:
The U.S. Senate needs to take
action on climate change. The
House of Representatives
passed legislation last June.

The Senate is still debating the
matter in various committees.
Legislation needs to come to
the Senate floor this year.

Catholic leaders and faith-based
organizations are expressing the
moral need for strong protections
of the poor and disadvantaged.

This is for families and communities
in the U.S. and around the world.

The impacts of climate change
will be most severe on the world’s
poorest and most vulnerable people,
including a disproportionate impact
on the lives of women and children.

You can help by asking Senators
to take action. Just as important,
make your voice heard publicly.

Use our resources to write letters and
op-ed articles. Be a voice for the poor.

The environmental crises we face require a global solution. But it begins with changes to our
federal policies and personal lifestyles:

1. Acting aggressively to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions so as to prevent further
damage to the climate and avoid even higher costs to lives and economies in the future.

2. Providing substantial resources and aid to build infrastructural resilience in poor
and vulnerable communities, both in the U.S. and developing nations around the world.

It is important to contact our Senators and tell them they have a critical opportunity to provide
leadership and create a fair and just policy for comprehensive climate change legislation.

This is not a debate about climate change, but a prudent course of action to reduce our use of
fossil fuels, create job opportunities for clean energy and safeguard poor and vulnerable people.


MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

Urgent Call to Write Letter to Editor

Sample Letter to Editor

Sample Letter to Senator

Sample Faith Letter to Senator

Bismarck Tribune op-ed article



LENTEN CARBON FAST CALENDAR (download)

Prairie Climate Stewardship Network invites communities
and people of faith to participate in a
carbon fast during
the Lenten season.


We join with them to encourage communities and people
of faith to reflect upon the choices we make in energy use
and to engage in basic energy saving practices.

A carbon fast is particularly relevant to people of faith,
for whom stewardship of creation is a responsibility. A
reduction in energy use through efficiency & energy savings
immediately results in the reduction of heat-trapping carbon
dioxide emissions that are responsible for climate change
which will most adversely impact the poorest of the poor.

Fasting and abstinence have often been associated with Lent
as a means to open our hearts and lives to what matters most.

We fast from what is not absolutely essential in the moment
so that we can recognize what is truly necessary in our lives.

Lent calls us to redirect our lives as disciples of Christ.

Following the days after Lent, we carry on and realize the
renewal of our hearts by our daily actions and choices.