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12 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛЮТИЙ 2016 Ви можете знайти детальну інформа- цію про ці та інші поради у книзі Девіда де Ротшильда «The Live Earth – Global Warming Survival Handbook» («Жива Земля: Посібник для виживання у час глобального потеплін- ня»). Книга доступна в Інтернеті та може бути придбана через Amazon.com. Також в Інтернеті ви можете знайти повний текст енцикліки Папи Франциска та інформацію про Паризьку конференцію зі зміни клімату. Надія Шмігель, представниця СФУЖО при ЕКОСОР. WE MUST NOT WAIT—DESTRUCTION IS AROUND THE CORNER by Nadia Shmigel, NGO Representative of WFUWO in consultative status with ECOSOC In the summer of 2015, New York City Mayor de Blasio traveled to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, to join forces with 60 mayors from around the world, and to be inspired in his efforts to save the environment for future generations. In his encyclical “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis talks about the moral obligation to combat poverty and the destruction of our environment. His timely statement on climate change, both grounded in scientific knowledge and moral obligation to save the Earth, came out right before the major United Nations Conference on Climate Change. The world is beginning to realize that we must do eve- rything we can to prevent further climate change—otherwise, we will destroy the Earth. Women’s organizations affiliated in the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organi- zations (WFUWO) share a long-standing com- mitment to alleviate poverty for women, and to facilitate their empowerment and economic de- velopment. One good example of such help is the work of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, one of the 27 women’s organizations affiliated in WFUWO. The UNWLA gives financial and emotional support to older women, orphans, and orphanages; stipends to school children; and, most recently, help to families who are affected by Russia’s invasion of and war with Ukraine. Being of Ukrainian descent, I deeply ap- preciate our ancestral culture’s love of nature. As a child, I was taught by my family to garden and to love everything that was green. I remember how a number of years ago, before sunflowers be- came fashionable in the United States, my hus- band, our two children, and I were searching for a Ukrainian church in Chicago. We had the address, but could not find it. We circled and circled around the neighborhood to no avail. I asked my husband to stop near a house that had a lovely garden with all kinds of vegetables, flowers, and beautiful tall sunflowers. I said I would ring the bell and find out where the church was. My hus- band and children thought that it was a ridiculous idea; how did I know that these people were Ukrainian? I told them to see whether they could find any other house in the neighborhood with such a lovely garden. It turned out that the inhab- itants of that house spoke Ukrainian and had no problem directing us to the church. As individuals and as women’s organiza- tions, we can help eliminate the rapidly increasing destruction of our environment by emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane—the so-called “greenhouse gases,” which trap heat from the sun instead of radiating it back into space, causing the overheating of the planet. The situation is grave according to scientists. They warn that if we do not change our habits of con- sumption, we will destroy our earth. Our climate is already one degree Celsius warmer than it was during the preindustrial era. Global warming causes storms, floods, and unpredictable envi- ronmental crises. On September 15, 2015, the United Na- tions opened the 70th session of the UN General Assembly. One of the very important issues de- bated there was climate change and what needed to be done to prevent our planet’s destruction. From November 30 to December 12, 2015, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change took place in Paris. The conference gathered the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Global Climate Change, the major goal of which has been to secure the international community’s
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