Changing Our Global Footprint

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Changing Our Global Footprint

• A How To Workshop
• Presbyterians for Restoring Creation Conference
• Andrew Kang Bartlett
• Presbyterian Hunger Program

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The Plan

• Three-fold path
• Foodprint and hoofprint
• Covenanting for change

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Changing Our Global Footprint

• A How To Workshop

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Changing Our Global Footprint

• A Want To Do Workshop

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Changing Our Global Footprint

• A Will Do Workshop

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Father, Son, Holy Ghost

• Thinking
• Feeling
• Willing

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Thinking, Feeling, Willing

• Thinking/Antipathy
• Feeling/Love
• Willing/Sympathy

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Thinking

• Thinking/Antipathy

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Thinking Christians

• Jesus instructed us to love our neighbor as
  ourselves. Harm to the earth brings harm to
  people, critters and eco-systems, and we are
  responsible for each others well being. We are
  stewards of Gods Creation.

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Feeling

• Feeling/Love

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Feeling, loving Christians

• Love your neighbor as yourself

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Willing

• Willing/Sympathy

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Willing Christians

• Environmental harm falls most heavily on the
  poor, and will fall even more heavily on those
  yet to be born. God requires that we deal justly
  with one another.

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The Eco-Footprint Accounting for a Small Planet

• Dr. Mathis Wackernagel

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Changing Footprint by Changing Food Systems

• Half planets population rural
• 1 billion small-scale farming - little energy or
  off-farm inputs.
• Pushed off the road by industrial food system
  into ditch of poverty.

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Industrial food system is what it is

• Great quantities of food
• Fewer farmers
• More time, more conveniences
• Cheap wheat, corn, rice, soybeans and cheap cocoa
  puffs and soda!

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Industrial Food System is unsustainable

• Petroleum-intensive
• Export focus -gt overproduction
• Environmental damage
• Fatally unhealthy (lt71 billion per year)

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IFS is unsustainable

• Farming practices mine precious topsoil
• Long shipping distances and intensive energy use
  ? pollution and climate change

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I wonder how many calories it took to produce
and ship this banana to me
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IFS is unsustainable

• Degrades and destroys genetic and biological
  diversity

• Poisons biosphere (including us) with planets
  most lethal toxins

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The Giant Footprint of Livestock

• By 2050, global production milk from 580 to 1,043
  million tons
• Meat to double (to 465 million tons)

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Livestocks Footprint

• Grazing - 26 of planets land
• (of ice-free terrestrial surface of the
  planet)
• Feedcrop - 33 of arable land (7)
• Livestock production - 70 of all agricultural
  land or 30 of land surface of the planet

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• Grazing - 26 of all land
• (of ice-free terrestrial surface of the
  planet)
• Feed - 33 of arable land

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Livestocks Footprint

• WATER 8 of global human water use (mostly for
  irrigation)

• Largest source of water pollution dead zones,
  coral reef degradation, human health problems,
  antibiotic resistance

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Water Climate Detour
Estimated of barrels of oil used to make the
bottled-water containers sold in the U.S. last
year?
16,000,000
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Water Climate Detour
Every five minutes, U.S. consumers use 2 million
plastic beverage containers.
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Livestocks Footprint

• Livestock responsible for
• 55 of erosion and sediment
• 37 of pesticide use
• 50 of antibiotics
• 1/3 or nitrogen and phosphorus into freshwater

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Livestocks Footprint

• Biodiversity Livestock using 30 of land
  pre-empts what was wildlife habitat

• Species loss at
• 50500 times background rates found in the fossil
  records

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Livestocks Footprint

• May be leading player in reduction of
  biodiversity (deforestation, land degradation,
  pollution, climate change, overfishing,
  sedimentation of coastal areas, facilitation of
  invasions of alien species)

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Livestocks Footprint

• CLIMATE 18 of greenhouse gas emissions in CO2
  equivalent
• Higher share than transport
• One less hamburger per week
• switching from an SUV to hybrid

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Industrial Food System not just meat

• All food in IFS depends on petroleum
• 16-20 of all energy consumed in the U.S.
• Distance between field and plate The average
  food item consumed in the U.S. travels 1,500 miles

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A Daunting Challenge
Yes, how do I change? How on earth do we change?
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Joanna Macy on fear

• How to overcome fear
• Hope is not the conviction that something will
  turn out well, but the certainty that something
  makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
  Václav Havel

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From whence comes strength?

• Talmud
• Your gift to the world, to God

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Changing our footprint by changing ourselves
Outer path Inner path or One journey
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Love

• Love yourself
• Love your neighbor
• Love God

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Covenant

• Go back to you triad
• Covenant in love
• Fear not

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Will

• Think, dream, imagine and write your intention (5
  minutes)
• Two practices one inner, one outer
• Record each others names, emails, phone

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Making it real

• Share with group (2-3 minutes each)
• Plan the year communication, frequency
• Seal the covenant (instructions later)

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Gods Creation

• The arc of the moral universe is long, but it
  bends toward justice.

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From Apocalypse to Genesis Rev. Dr. Janet
Parker (www.nccecojustice.org) referring to the
eco-apocalyptic challenge the human race faces
Speth and many other scientists and theologians
are speaking a language that sounds off-key to
our modern ears.  Its a language that biblical
prophets like Ezekiel and John of Patmos would
recognize, however.  It is the language of
apocalypsethe imagery of the end times and the
mysteries of God.  The environmental challenges
that face us are beginning to look apocalyptic,
except now the apocalypse is not a fantasy of
fundamentalists, or the stuff of science fiction,
but the edge of an abyss that clear-eyed
scientists peer over and tremble at.  And the
threats we face are not orchestrated by God but
self-inflicted.
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Its hard to talk about these things, but we have
to break the silence, especially within the
churches, because here, above all else, we must
speak the truth.  As Daniel Maguire, a Catholic
theologian, has said bluntly, If current trends
continue, we will not If religion does not
speak to this, it is an obsolete distraction. 
And so we need to speak about it, and we need to
weep about it, because its only when we allow
ourselves to actually feel what is going on that
we will have the capacity to change it.  As one
ecofeminist theologian has said, the capacity to
weep and then do something is worth everything.
This is the purpose of apocalyptic literature in
the Bible and the purpose of the eco-apocalyptic
warnings of scientists and environmentalistsnot
to paralyze us with fear, but to spur us to act,
and even, to invest us with hope. 
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Ezekiel, writing to exiles, whose homeland had
been destroyed, offered a vision of a new daya
dream of the time when they would return to their
land and dwell in peace, when the land itself
would be restored from its former desolation and
bloom as if it were the garden of Eden.  And the
people who would dwell there would be different
than the people who went into exile, because they
would be transformed by their experience.  They
will return, but not as the same people, for we
are told that God has cleansed them from their
idols and so, a new heart I will give you, and
a new spirit I will put within you and I will
remove from your body the heart of stone, and
give you a heart of flesh.