Monday, 3 January 2011

Stop press

I am doing the intercessions at the Eucharist this week, and was checking the BBC site for the latest news stories. It's pretty shocking how many stories are related to adverse weather causing damage and devastation to peoples' lives:
  • flooding in Queensland
  • extreme cold and snow in northern India
  • tornadoes in mid-western United States
  • heavy rain and landslides in the Philippines
  • continued disruptions to water supply in Northern Ireland
And RIP Pete Postlethwaite, a great actor and a political activist who marched against the Iraq war, supported Make Poverty History and starred in "The Age of Stupid", the film about global warming: looking back from a devastated future world in 2055, why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Posted by Clare Bryden at 20:30

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