Wake Up World - A Climate Curriculum
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A Curriculum on the Climate Crisis for Faith and Community Groups
A New Climate Crisis Curriculum for Faith and Community Groups is now available free of charge
“WHERE WE WEREN’T AWARE, WE’RE NOW AWAKE…….
SO LET US NOT RETURN TO WHAT WAS NORMAL, BUT REACH TOWARD WHAT IS NEXT.”
From New Day’s Lyric by Amanda Gorman
The intention of this curriculum is to provide a study that can be used by local faith and community groups and taught by volunteers with no particular expertise in climate science. It provides the basic science agreed upon by the majority of climate scientists, plus additional resources for those who would like to delve deeper. It is a response to the moral, economic, and national security imperative for all of us to become educated on this important topic. A basic education of the current situation leads to greater motivation to action and more informed action. A 2021 UN global poll found that 2/3 of the world’s population know that climate change is a global emergency.
This curriculum can be helpful to persons of any faith, religious belief, or spiritual tradition. If you are a human being living on planet earth, then you have the requirements for participation in this 6-class study. Whatever your belief system, it will likely have the potential to encourage your faithfulness in learning about the crisis at hand and what you can do to mitigate it, adapt to it, and preserve the earth for future generations.
Intended Outcomes For This Curriculum:
- Participants will finish with a basic understanding of what the majority of climate scientists today agree is happening to our ecosystem.
- Participants will be able to better understand and critically evaluate what they see and hear regarding the climate crisis.
- Participants will be able to see how the breadth of concern also provides breadth of opportunity for action in our everyday lives and decisions.
- Participants, though initially they may feel fear or despair, will be moved to take actions that will lead to a sense of agency and hope.
- If your participants have children or grandchildren, they will be able to talk to them in a meaningful way about the climate crisis, realizing that young people are often further along on the road to understanding the climate crisis than many adults. They need us to be educated and help them find meaningful action which can reduce the fear, anxiety, depression and hopelessness many of them are feeling.
- Participants will begin to become comfortable talking about the climate crisis with friends and families.
Info
- Introduction & "How This Curriculum Came To Be
- Slideshows
- Recordings Of All Six Classes Presented to the Seattle Climate Change Meetup in 2022
- Zoom groups are currently being formed to study this material together. For more information email wakeupworld.earth@gmail.com
- This study is not limited by borders. It has been used in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Oregon and Washington in the USA to our knowledge. Its advisory board is international and the curriculum is available for translation into other languages beyond English.
Page Nomination
This page is being nominated by the authors of Wake Up World, A Curriculum on the Climate Crisis for Faith and Community Groups. Dr. Robert and Anita Dygert-Gearheart mailto:wakeupworld.earth@gmail.com
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Climate Crisis; Education; Curriculum; Community Groups; Action Teams; Green Teams; Faith Communities; Churches; Creation Justice; Climate Justice;
