First published in National Catholic Reporter Global Sisters Report on Aug. 11, 2016.
by Joan Brown
Sometimes messages follow us around. This summer voices of violence at home and abroad, the face of white superiority, racism, and the very visceral weather events intensified by climate change through the heat waves, drought, floods seem to attach themselves to us like strong neon colored sticky notes.
In the midst of these messages there is one that keeps following me. This particular theme has taken me by surprise. In fact, I have tried to put this message on the back burner for a number of years because there is so much pressing work around climate change and climate justice.