"We are here because we have a different view. We care about the planet and its inhabitants. We value it as a gift of our creator. We want to live in harmony with creation. We are here because we are motivated by love, not profit."
"For the first time in his life, the 80-year-old was arrested and charged with trespassing last year during a sit-in at a Royal Bank of Canada branch in protest of the bank's fossil fuel financing."
"Canadian banks, he said, were choosing to ignore climate science to profit from the destruction of the planet, and he felt a moral obligation, affirmed by his baptismal covenant, to take a stand."
"no faith in fossil fuels"
An 80-year-old Anglican deacon and co-chair of Faith and Climate Action was arrested during a sit-in at a Royal Bank of Canada branch protesting the bank's fossil fuel financing. He and other faith leaders say banks ignore climate science and profit from planetary destruction, prompting a moral response rooted in religious commitments. A 78-year-old Catholic sister has also faced arrest at similar demonstrations. Human-driven burning of fossil fuels is intensifying wildfires, droughts and floods, increasing public costs and deepening global inequalities. Canada's emissions have begun to decline but not fast enough to avert serious climate impacts according to studies.
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