Op-Ed: This Rosh Hashanah, give Earth a sabbatical

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Op-Ed: This Rosh Hashanah, give Earth a sabbatical (via latimesopinion)

One message from the United Nations report is that we are past the time when individual actions — my compost, your Tesla, Ed Begley’s“I have some serious difficulty with framing the response to climate change in terms of what ‘I’ can do to contribute to the solution,” UCLA climate policy expert. “There are some limited ways that individual behavior change can make a non-trivial difference, but climate change is a problem of the aggregate emissions of human activities from 7.

Judaism, of course, knows from personal responsibility. Indeed, the prime directive of the New Year is atonement, making good with each person you have wronged so that you can make good with God. That’s why many non-Orthodox Jews — and non-Jews — have begun to bring attention to shmita as a lever to awaken faith-based activism against climate change.In fact, the concept can be a corrective to the idea that religion begins and ends with personal faith, the Rev.

 

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