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            Dear all, This is the first of the new series of paintings inspired by the Holy Spirit, their release initiated by Rev Claire Robertson’s sermon (see below if you missed yesterday's painting) and the music of Claire and Antoinette, the Cann Twins. Musically this is still very much inspired by the whole 3 hours available to me, by the shades and colours, the textures, and the sense of future. This painting is about a future. The coal fired power station will be the future if we let it. If you thought that, like the dinosaurs, the coal fired power station was extinct, I am sorry to disappoint you. There are over 1,500 of them in use today. The energy transferred is being used to make expensive products for the rich people in the world.

This matters because COP 26 and its predecessors were supposed to end the release of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is one of these and acts like the glass in a greenhouse, allowing light in, to be absorbed by the earth, which then releases the energy as heat, to which the CO2 is opaque, trapping the heat in the atmosphere.

COP 1 to COP26 did not stop coal being used to make electricity. The global average temperature continues to increase. This will have three effects.

It will increase the rate of the biodiversity crash, already the fastest in the history of Earth. As the temperature increases many species cannot move to cooler regions and will become extinct. 
It will continue to increase the rate of ice melting and of the sea level rising, flooding coastal areas, where many of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth live. The number of displaced people will rise to billions.
It will also increase the frequency and intensity of heat-driven climatic events such as hurricanes (also called typhoons and cyclones) and will make them more widespread. Once again, the poorest and most vulnerable people will be most severely affected by such events. For example, the poorest communities often live on steeply sloped land near to large cities, where landslides are more likely after intense rainfall.
Jesus, whose actions when he entered Jerusalem before his death and resurrection, prove that he is the rightful King of the Jewish people, of all people and King of His universe, for it is through him that all things were created (John 1:1-5), makes quite clear our responsibility for the poorest and most vulnerable people on earth (Matthew 25:31-46). It is our responsibility to tell the rest of the world. So, I paint these paintings to help make the future better..

Right now, it is not too late. Right now, if every Christian, if the members of every congregation, if every minister and every bishop and every cardinal and Archbishop and Pope and Patriarch of the Churches of the world challenge every government in the world to fix its part of the problem, it is not too late. Right now, it is not too late. Don’t put it off! Pray for the future. Write to your government. Write to the organisers of the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (UNFCCC COP 27). Tell them the truth. Tell them that failure is not an option. Tell them about how many coal-fired power stations are still being used. Tell them the three reasons why rising global temperature is a bad thing (see "COP 1-26 have failed," above). Challenge your government. Challenge the leaders of the world. Love from Rick
   
Taken on: May 19, 2022
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