‘Climate Casualties’ is a conversation package developed by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart in collaboration with the Sisters of St Joseph Lochinvar to spark discussion, inform, and inspire people of hope.
The Josephite Laudato Si’ Action Plan Team has released its third Conversation Package entitled Climate Casualties. This resource takes the form of a flipping book, delivers much information, good discussion starters and suggests actions to address the climate crisis.
It offers many ways to approach this most vital issue, including video clips, poetry, stories and music. The resource can be downloaded as a pdf.
Climate Casualties part of the Urgent Hope series that focuses on Laudate Deum, Pope Francis’ follow-up letter to Laudato Si that he published in 2015. In that letter he wrote that, despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident. (#5)
This Josephite Climate Casualties Conversation package presents information on rising sea levels, micro plastics and the forever chemicals. It notes the drastic effects these sea levels have on the many people, plants and animals that have been killed, injured, or displaced by climate events. The island nations of the Pacific are especially vulnerable.
Pope Francis wrote in Laudate Deum #10: What is happening is that millions of people are losing their jobs due to different effects of climate change: rising sea levels, droughts and other phenomena affecting the planet have left many people adrift.
Climate Casualties links Pope Francis’ calls for deep and lasting personal change, meaningful systemic change with the Jubilee Year of Hope. He says that in addition to finding hope in God’s grace, we are also called to discover hope in the signs of the times that the Lord gives us.
Climate Casualties is part of Explore-Embrace-Embody Laudato Si’ Action Plan for the Josephite Community. It is the Josephite Action Plan for the next seven years and reflects the body of Catholic Social Teaching presented in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’.
