May 10 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Exploring a Faith-Based Response to Climate Migration
The global surge in migration over the past decades, often linked to climate change, is now frequently in the news and has spurred a new era of hard-right politics in wealthier countries, including the United States. According to Colette Pichon Battle, a New Orleans-based climate justice strategist and lawyer, “We must start preparing for global migration today. It’s a reality now. Our cities and our communities are not prepared.”
Join Lella Lowe, long-time environmental champion, as she sets the stage for what we are facing and invites conversation about the role of faith communities in preparing for climate-linked mobility and our call to compassion and solidarity with the poor and the stranger.
Lella Lowe is a long-time climate justice champion, involved for many years in creation care programming at her church and in her Episcopal diocese. She has obtained climate justice certifications from the EPA, Climate Reality and Blessed Tomorrow, and is a member of the Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition, Gulf Coast Creation Care, and Mobile Bay Sierra Club. Lella has been rattling creation justice cages at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Mobile for nearly 40 years.