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A Climate-Conscious Lent: Oceans choking on plastic
… Fr. Emmet Farrell … See … : … Studies project that by 2050, there could be more plastic in our oceans than fish . Researchers estimate that on average, 8 million metric tons of plastic trash enter the ocean every year, an amount that keeps increasing. This pollution is … torrent of oil and gas from the U.S. fracking boom — the fossil fuel industry is looking to plastics as a lifeline," writes Antonia Juhasz in Sierra Magazine. "Today, 14 percent of oil and …
As we pollute the oceans, sea life isn't alone at risk — our health is, too
… Global Health. The authors recommended ending the burning of coal and eliminating single-use plastics, which contribute to the more than 10 million tons of plastic waste that end up in oceans each year. "It's a big problem. It's a growing problem. It's … 70% of Earth's surface." It points out a myriad of threats to marine life, such as increasing plastic pollution, pollution from ships and underwater mining and drilling, and water …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Arctic ice and permafrost
… in studying and working on climate change in your parish or community. Refuse to use plastic water bottles and have your own reusable mug. …
EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'
… Alley," where Catholic activist Sharon Lavigne is leading a fight to stop construction of a plastics factory , have higher rates of lung diseases, which have made residents more vulnerable …
This Lent, we must pair our faith with action
… slice before covering it with another. Once made, I would slip the sandwiches back into the plastic sleeve in which the bread had come. When we reached 120 sandwiches, my brother would …
EarthBeat Weekly: Forest conservation, clean energy, green jobs get thumbs up in global poll
… Climate Now consortium. The recycling industry has tanked, and as landfills become choked with plastics, New York state legislators are drafting bold legislation that would make manufacturers …
Book on Brooklyn's 'giglio' feast highlights Catholic male devotion
… boxes of candles out of storage, sold rosaries and prayer cards and "tossed dollar bills into plastic yellow boxes and watched as people lit candles and kneeled before the statue of Our Lady …
Prominent Capitol insurrectionists lose jobs
… Jan. 6 events. Already arrested and charged are the man who brought a host of "zip ties," or plastic handcuffs, with him into the Capitol; the man who dressed in a Teutonic-style horn …
2021 seen as a year to make up lost ground on climate change
… Si' goals include steps like achieving carbon neutrality, defending all life, using less plastic and eating less meat, and divesting from fossil fuels while reinvesting in renewable …
EarthBeat Weekly: In Amazonian Nativity scenes, Jesus is born in midst of everyday life
… wooden church. By the time I'd finished breakfast, there was a wooden frame covered with blue plastic to the right of the sanctuary. As a bucket brigade hauled water to fill it, several … corridors became makeshift wards, and patients lay on mats on the floor, tethered by narrow plastic tubes to lifegiving cylinders of oxygen. Then the oxygen ran out. Demand outstripped … kit, a food basket and an oxygen cylinder. Outside of several houses are cadavers wrapped in plastic, a grim and sorrowful reminder of the powerlessness of families who lost loved ones and …