For more than a
century now the Scouts of the world have aimed to be prepared.
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| Like the Scouts, we need to "Be prepared'. |
That is an idea
that each of us should heed and will be discussed at Saturday's gathering
Beneath the Wisteria in Shepparton’s Maude St Mall, at which a local response
to our changing climate will be considered.
Organizer, Mr
Robert McLean, said there is an urgency and importance about responding to
climate change; a need for decision and action with a haste that exceeds the
imagination or understanding of most.
“We have seen less
than a one degree increase in global temperatures over pre-industrial times and
with a two degree increase already unavoidable, the damaging weather events
never before seen in recorded history can only become even more destructive,”
he said.
“Like the Scouts”,
he said, “We need to be prepared”.
“That shift in our
thinking, our way of living,” Mr McLean said, “is going to demand a wholesale
reappraisal of how we live, how we co-exist with our neighbours, our
communities and, more broadly, others throughout the world.”
The scouting
movement, he points out, wants to contribute to the education of young people,
through a value system based on the promise and law, to help build a better
world, where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive
role in society.
“We can morph that
set of values into our response to climate change and in doing so help create a
beautiful society in which people understand that humanity, despite our often
grandiose beliefs, is really just a small part of the total biosphere,” Mr
McLean said.
The Saturday, October 27,
gathering Beneath the Wisteria, which is free and open to all, starts at
11:30am. Some seating is available, but those attending should bring a folding
chair, along with an open and inquisitive mind.
“The implications
of our changing climate are so grave,” Mr McLean said, “that all should join
the conversation to be at least mentally and emotionally prepared.”
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