Former Vice President Al Gore urged Black interfaith leaders and environmental activists to increase joint efforts to seek solutions to the “twin crises of climate and racial justice.”
Former vice president urges activists to unite and seek solutions to the “twin crises of climate and racial justice.”
“Nineteen of the 20 hottest years ever measured with instruments have been since 2002, and every day watching the international television news feels like a nature hike right through the Book of Revelation,” said Gore, who founded the“We must work to build bridges of understanding with those who are suffering the worst impacts,” he added at an event co-hosted by the Black Interfaith Project of Interfaith America at the Oprah Winfrey Theater of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African...
But Black leaders across faiths need to be more vocal on the issue, said the Rev. Fred Davie, senior adviser for racial equity at Interfaith America, which partners with Religion News Service on a journalism fellowship. “Once people feel comfortable and trust each other,” said Cavalier, a North Carolina member of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, “it is a lot easier to organize our communities, especially when it comes to around the earth, environmental degradation and how we all have to stand up and fight back.”
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