Dear legislator, 

I am a member of the Indiana faith community and I am calling on you to take action on an issue that impacts our communities, our environmental resources, and the most vulnerable amongst us, climate change.  Climate change, environmental degradation, and injustice threaten the health of our society and damage our relationship with the world around us, a relationship that is one of spiritual significance. Climate change leads to increasing extreme heat days, severe storms, and flooding here in Indiana. These impacts intersect with structural forms of injustice, as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, urban and rural poor, and other vulnerable communities disproportionately face the environmental and health consequences of these phenomena. Acting on this is a moral imperative.  I am calling on you to declare climate change a significant threat and establish a task force to address it during the next legislative session and pass meaningful legislation that will transition us away from extractive towards regenerative systems.