{"id":4368,"date":"2014-05-13T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:01:27","slug":"the-pain-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2014\/05\/13\/the-pain-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pain of Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last fall, I heard a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the radio that caused me to have all sorts of physical reactions.<\/p>\n

It was the end of a busy day of ministry, and I was cooking dinner for the sisters I live with, a group of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. I was casually listening to the evening news while I set the table. Then, I heard a story unlike anything I had ever heard before. For those four minutes, I was frozen, staring down at the empty plates while I listened. I was completely stunned. After the story ended, my mind and heart hurt from what I heard. I gasped and groaned and prayed out loud.<\/p>\n

What I was hearing, what was disturbing me so deeply, was the news that a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean,\u00a0<\/span>Kiribati<\/a>, (pronounced KIR-e-bass) is in trouble. Due to the stresses of rising sea levels, Kiribati is likely to be completely uninhabitable by 2030. The people must find somewhere else to go or they will not survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

A nation is dissolving. A people must abandon their home. This was preventable and it is not their fault. It\u2019s our fault. We have destroyed their community, their nation, their lives \u2013 and we don\u2019t even know who they are. . .<\/p>\n

[This is the beginning of my first column for the new online newspaper,\u00a0Global Sisters Report<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Continue reading here.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo of Kiribati from Business Insider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The Pain of Climate Change<\/a><\/blockquote>