Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

A failure of moral leadership and pastoral care

Climate change is the greatest moral issue of our age — an extension of Robert Kennedy’s vision for a more humane society — yet church leaders have ignored it or dismissed it as invention. [4 August 2009 | Peter Boyer]
“We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in [...]