Climate Vigil

On February 15 we co-hosted a Climate Emergency Vigil with Faith Climate Justice Waterloo Region. It was a beautiful February afternoon, and we reflected on this quote from Andreas Weber's book Matter and Desire:

“It could be that the planet is not actually suffering from either an environmental crisis or an economic one. Instead, it could be that the Earth is currently suffering from a shortage of our love… “To understand love, we must understand life…we do not understand love if we fail to see that it is linked to the living world, to the experience of inhabiting a living body that trembles in joy and winces in pain.” 

For our wandering time, we reflected on the ways we love the Earth, and in particular, this place and the waters and creatures that we share it with. We also wondered about how it changes us if we believe that the Earth loves us back. 

We also learned that we are on the precipice of using all the water in the Waterloo Moraine – the lifeblood of Waterloo Region. There is no more water for expansion of housing or businesses.  How do we love our watershed, and how does that love affect how we live here?

We were given three calls to action: ​learning about a local “Blueprint for a Bluebelt in Waterloo Region,” along with calls to sign these letters to our federal government, Give Peace A Chance, and Turn Debt into Hope.