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small group
author Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk>
date Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:16:57 +0100
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+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]