Priority III
Environment, Food Security & Conflict Prevention
Project 3.1 Climate Change
Goal: Work with Veterans for Peace groups, monitor conflicts in Nebraska such as the wind and nuclear weapons conflict
Project 3.2 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Goal: Adopt favorable government policies and initiatives on climate and environmental action, renewable energy, food security and regenerative agriculture.
Project 3.3 Food Security
Goal: Monitor organizations supporting Food Security.
Project 3.3 Public Health
Goal: Bring awareness to the fact that Climate Change is causing a health crisis.
With the onset of global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, protection of the environment has become a pillar of the Peace & Justice movement in its own right. The earth’s ecosystems face catastrophic changes in the coming decades from this threat, all of which will heighten social tensions by increasing the potential for conflicts over scarce resources. Protecting the environment is now central to the work of peacemaking, both to reduce our carbon footprint and to end conflicts over foreign oil and natural resources, like water. Our advocacy for renewable energy development here in Nebraska — particularly wind and solar — is a natural outgrowth of this priority issue, as well as our focus on promoting local food and urban agriculture in our state.
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Environment, Food Security & Conflict Prevention
Project 3.1 Climate Change
Goal: Work with Veterans for Peace groups, monitor conflicts in Nebraska such as the wind and nuclear weapons conflict
Project 3.2 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Goal: Adopt favorable government policies and initiatives on climate and environmental action, renewable energy, food security and regenerative agriculture.
Project 3.3 Food Security
Goal: Monitor organizations supporting Food Security.
Project 3.3 Public Health
Goal: Bring awareness to the fact that Climate Change is causing a health crisis.
With the onset of global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, protection of the environment has become a pillar of the Peace & Justice movement in its own right. The earth’s ecosystems face catastrophic changes in the coming decades from this threat, all of which will heighten social tensions by increasing the potential for conflicts over scarce resources. Protecting the environment is now central to the work of peacemaking, both to reduce our carbon footprint and to end conflicts over foreign oil and natural resources, like water. Our advocacy for renewable energy development here in Nebraska — particularly wind and solar — is a natural outgrowth of this priority issue, as well as our focus on promoting local food and urban agriculture in our state.
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