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The Sabbath in an Era of Climate Change
Here we bring you the article from our director, Jonathan Schorsch, that originally inspired the Green Sabbath Project.
We humans face a set of dire ecological crises, the results of what many now call the Anthropocene Era, the era of human modification of earth’s planetary systems. These crises—global warming, altered weather, species extinction, the threats of various kinds of toxic pollution, the proliferation of garbage, soil erosion, desertification, declining freshwater supplies, and so on—constitute not only an absolutely real imminent threat to the future well-being of humankind, but also, it sometimes seems, a modern manifestation of the various litanies of biblical curses.
Hello.
Welcome to the Green Sabbath Project blog. It is my honor and delight to initiate this forum.
Fifty years ago, the United Nations called for an environmental sabbath or earth rest day, to be celebrated once a year (in June). The planetary agenda introduced in the accompanying booklet, called Only One Earth, urges protection against “climate change and global warming,” among other environmental ills.