Quaker Peace and Social Witness has shared that on 22 September, individuals were invited to participate in Loss and Damage Action Day. Last week, people around the world stood in solidarity with those living under the worst conditions of the climate crisis and called for “polluters to pay up.” As rich countries and large emitters of greenhouse gas emissions continue to knowingly damage the planet and threaten the well being of the earth’s most vulnerable, Quakers continue to call for urgent, sustainable and transformative climate action.
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Loss and Damage refers specifically to the negative impacts of climate change that have already been experienced. It also refers to those losses that have yet to occur but inevitably will. Often the people most impacted are already the poorest and most vulnerable inhabitants of earth who have contributed the least to the climate crisis. On the 22nd, hundreds of Quakers and others came together across the United Kingdom, including as part of a walk of witness from St. John’s Church, Waterloo, to Parliament Square, in order to increase pressure on the largest polluters to be responsible for the consequences of their actions.
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As the climate crisis continues to be increasingly felt around the world, it is more important than ever to put pressure on those most responsible. To stand in solidarity at any time of the year with those most impacted by climate change, here are a few simple actions you can take:
1. Write to your national representatives to tell them about how important it is to fund loss and damage.
2. Hold a short screening of “The Global Story of Climate Change, Loss and Damage- and Who Should Pay for It” to share with friends and family the importance of polluters paying
3. Share your own #PayUp4Loss&Damage post on social media
4. Engage with future climate change justice related events in your community
5. Familiarize yourself with the People’s Climate Empowerment Series and share it with your community
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QUAKERS & CLIMATE CHANGE WORLDWIDE 
We need a Plan to Limit Global Warming to 1.5 degrees C. We need the IPCC to define the CO2 emissions of the ideal world citizen on track to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C. The United Nations needs to define a (science based) G_d as “that which established the laws of science in this universe, and that which established consciousness in people and the other beings with consciousness.” Then the changes of climate change are the (science based) Curses of Our (science based) Father and we need to get our CO2 emissions down to zero as quickly as possible. Can we learn to sequester our CO2 emissions? Or must we lay down our lives for the innocent hunter gatherers who do not emit CO2. Everyone in the world must stop emitting greenhouse gases if we are to stop global warming.
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