# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1570270617 -3600 # Node ID f9ec1de55f16f6379d4290685ca2f2ceb0885b94 # Parent 5f2a639dce57734dc2f189f286c638fe6887e541 small group diff -r 5f2a639dce57 -r f9ec1de55f16 Sufferings/2019-10-04/notes.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sufferings/2019-10-04/notes.txt Sat Oct 05 11:16:57 2019 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +C&P Register +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]