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Abhay Singh Sachal reads the Youth Section Introduction for the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement’s Canvas Guide to the Faith for Earth: A Call for Action resource, a document created by the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the United Nations Environment Programme Faith for Earth Initiative.
This is the 3rd blogcast in our Faith for Earth blogcast series where we’ll be highlighting the commitments and calls for action faith traditions have made around caring for the Earth.
This recording is originally from the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement’s Faith for Earth Canvas Guide to the Faith for Earth: A Call for Action resource, a document created by the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the United Nations Environment Programme Faith for Earth Initiative. You can access the full Guide here.
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A Horizon of Hopefulness: Youth Leadership
The chorus of voices of youth and young adults around the world, represents a movement for change today, that is directed at the climate crisis. On every continent, and across every religion, there are youth and young adults who are taking leadership roles and pushing the traditional structures of international discernment for the world.
More than any generation, it is the youngest who are becoming aware of how lack of biodiversity, an increase in ecological degradation, the surge of vitriolic storms and heatwaves, the rising of sea levels, and the societal tensions that these all contribute to … are, in short, going to fall on their shoulders.
Long after current adults are done with the world, what these youth inherit from all preceding generations will serve as a watershed moment between past abuses and the present conditions of learning how to live on a planet that is undergoing serious harm.
The horizon of hopefulness belongs to the aspiring eyes of youth across cultures, religions, and worldviews. That hope is a precious resource that must be protected and cultivated, as hope is also able to be exhausted in seedbeds where hope finds no nourishment for its flourishing.
For this reason, every living person is going to play a role in assisting the arrival of hope in the world’s youth. Traditional religion, spiritual pathways, and Indigenous wisdom bring stories and song, and histories with a commitment to a generous soul. Youth drawing from these traditions make contributions to the future by drinking deeply from the living waters of a human past.
In this section, you can see a glimpse of hope that is alloyed by resilience, determination, focus, and a commitment to a vision of the world that is both brave and possible.
This recording is originally from the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement’s Faith for Earth Canvas Guide to the Faith for Earth: A Call for Action resource, a document created by the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the United Nations Environment Programme Faith for Earth Initiative. You can access the full Guide here.
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