Eco Blog - St. George's Berlin

Many of us travel for business, some for pleasure. In both cases the flights have a climate impact, as calculated "by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and a joint initiative by the travel industry association forum anders reisen and the environmental and development organization Germanwatch." ( LINK ) Here are some sample results for round trip flights in kg of CO2: Berlin (BER) to London (LCY):   Climate impact: 477 kg  Berlin (BER) to Paris (CDG): Climate impact 424 kg   Berlin (BER) to Newark (EWR): Climate impact: 3,182 kg Berlin (BER) to Beijing (BJS): Climate impact: 3,792 kg Readers can check other results with this  LINK .

A violent storm alert went out "at  6.45pm on Friday to 3 million people in areas covered by the Met Office’s rare red warning for wind in parts of Wales and south-west England."  (Guardian, 7 Dec 2024 LINK )   (PHOTO SOURCE LINK) The Guardian does not say so explicitly in the article, but we know that violent weather of this sort is a consequences of environmental change. The website "Earthjustice.org" ( LINK ) warns that " Human activity is causing rapid changes to our global climate that are contributing to extreme weather conditions".  (Earthjustice,org, 1 October 2024).  In order to protect God's creation, we need to remind people that reliable scientific evidence links the causes of violent storms to environmental changes that are not inevitable if people reduce pollution.