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author Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk>
date Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:16:57 +0100
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Witness?
Arrest?
Uphold vs. condone?
Testing concern: how, before or after?
PP says _post-hoc_ is OK.

*Sustainability*
 "How might we be called to act next?"
  - Eldership
    "All creation was being set free to be true to itself" Eden Grace 2019
    "Right purpose, right use, right relationship" Ditto
  - Oversight
    Action depends on community, acting alone is too hard
     Enable and support us: changing community norms [wrt energy use]
     Economic growth vs. finite resources
  - Living Faithfully
    Think about energy _as part_ of a decision, not a retro-fit
    [Social pressure wrt holidays]
  - Right Ordering
    Wrt property: reporting currently focussed on Meeting-level, not individual
    Carbon emissions: focus on _saving_ (e.g. from switching to Good
    Energy) rather than _emitting_
  - Witness
    Economics and Sustainability sub-committee of QPSW
 Eco-church movement?
 Anger about narrowness "too neat, too tidy": impact needed on wider
  community (i.e. not "white, middle-class")

 Small groups
  "What's being done already?"
  "Looking forward": what more are we being called to do?

Group 3 Elaine
 *Doing now*
   "Just transition" ['just' as in 'justice']
   Co-ordination
   Self-awareness
   [breaking out of the bubble?]
   Leverage our privilege
   "... go on the defensive"
   Younger friends: veg[an|itarian], cycle/walk by default
     Cultural shift [c.f. changing community norms]
   Buses on a Sunday!
   Celebrate what we _are_ doing [ref. Geoffrey]

 *Looking forward*
  small actions vs. despair
  _Our_ particular angle: faith basis, ref. Eden Grace
  Central priority [set by PP?] is on the political [Gordon Benson]