We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis

Climate change is an issue on every level: practical, social, ethical and also spiritual. I don’t believe in a God who, from high above, determines human destiny with a yes, no or maybe. In the tradition of Jewish, and perhaps of all, mystics, I feel God in the sacred energy that flows through all beings – humans, animals, birds and trees – bestowing consciousness on everything that lives. God’s presence is within all creation, concealed, often ignored, and all too often abused. I love the trees and birds for their own sake, and I respect them because I sense in them the being of the divine.