We Are Earth: A Faithful Response to the Climate Crisis

As leaders in Washington D.C. push harmful climate policies, they endanger us all—including themselves. In our recent newsletter, our Executive Director, Desirée Bernard, calls us to walk together toward justice, healing, and hope. Read her full statement below.

Dear NM & El Paso IPL Community,

Across our beautiful planet and region we are witnessing the impacts of the climate crisis. Each day we struggle to metabolize information about new disasters, threats, and diminishments to our sacred creation. We see extractivist worldviews driving leaders in Washington D.C. to push policies that don’t just harm the planet – they endanger everyone, including the people advancing them. So many of the truths we are called to witness in this moment are weighing upon and breaking our hearts.

“They tried to bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.”

And still we the people–we are Earth! If we had forgotten, we are increasingly waking up to this reality. When we harm that which sustains us, we harm ourselves. And when we rise to protect that, we are protecting ourselves and our loved ones. Arising to protect. This, too, is who we are.

We the people cannot be stopped in our widespread and still-emerging movements to care for ourselves, one another, and our common home.

We invite you to join our efforts at New Mexico and El Paso Interfaith Power and Light. We are already mobilizing and planning to further mobilize projects that put our faith in action to protect our climate, lands, waters, and people.

Are you or your faith community ready to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, collaborate on land and water based projects, or advocate for helpful policies? We are here to support you in your desire to do something!

Together we are choosing and will keep walking a path of justice, healing, and hope.

Together, rooted in courage and love, we can and will shape a future where all beings may thrive.

In faith and solidarity,

Desirée Bernard

Executive Director, NM and El Paso Interfaith Power and Light