May 2014

May 2014 Mercy justice highlights published every month JUSTICE HIGHLIGHT Mercy Joins Call to Conscience on Climate Disruption Sisters of Mercy have joined an effort led by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (the Quaker advocacy organization) to... More

May 2014 Mercy justice highlights published every month JUSTICE HIGHLIGHT Mercy Joins Call to Conscience on Climate Disruption Sisters of Mercy have joined an effort led by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (the Quaker advocacy organization) to appeal to Congress on climate change from a moral perspective. The short-term goal is to encourage a bipartisan group of legislators to publicly declare that climate disruption is real, primarily caused by human activities, and inflicting great harm on present and future generations and on Earth itself. This is a particularly critical time to speak out on climate change, after the Obama Administration released the Third National Climate Assessment. The report is the work of over three hundred experts from a wide variety of disciplines and concludes that climate change is not a distant threat, but is happening right now. Not only are the planet and the nation warming on average, but a number of types of extreme weather events linked t Less