Westminster J&P statement on President Trump and environment + petition

The Westminster Justice and Peace Commission have issued the following statement today

As Donald Trump takes up office as the President of the United States of America, we in Justice and Peace wish to flag up our concerns for global action on climate.

While both scientists and Pope Francis are calling for dramatic action against the climate crisis, it is most alarming to know that President Trump is determined to do exactly the opposite.

As leader of the most powerful country in earth, which happens to have contributed the most to the climate crisis (considering historical and per capita pollution), he has the moral obligation to accept climate science and take action accordingly.

What he is doing instead is to appoint a climate sceptic, Scott Pruitt, to be head of the US Environmental Protection Agency. This is hardly encouraging, and we are invited to participate in a petition organised by the Global Catholic Climate Movement, urging President Trump to take the climate crisis seriously. The GCCM was instrumental in collecting more than a third of signatures for the Interfaith Climate Petition at the Paris talks. We encourage everyone to support and publicise this important movement, and to continue to hold our own government to the UN Climate agreement it signed at the end of last year.

To sign the petition see: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/asease

For more more information about Westminster J&P climate work -

tel: 02088884222 or email: justice@rcdow.org.uk, Fr Joe Ryan joeryan@rcdow.org.uk or Barbara Kentish barbarakentish@rcdow.org.uk