#  Maya Pace, MTS '23: Climate Justice Week Transcript 

 



## Religious Literacy and Climate Justice



 

 Harvard Divinity School · Maya Pace, MTS '23: Climate Justice Week 

 



 

 

 

Ever since the event with the RPL Fellows that happened on Friday, I've been thinking about something that Rev. Naomi was saying, which was that if governments took bodies more seriously, perhaps our countries, and our towns, and our world would be different. And as I was listening to her speak, I realized that if I take the Earth seriously, then I also must take my body seriously. And having this discussion happen at the end of the week helps synthesize for me just the importance of thinking in fractals of my own body being one segment of the Earth that requires care and attention of the home I live in as being another fractal of my community, the land I walk on. So I'm really thinking about the interconnectedness down to the micro level and way out to the macro level of this idea that we must take the Earth seriously.

And I think this will deeply impact my climate justice activism. And I think this brings me into why I think that Harvard Divinity is an incredibly important place for us to continue talking about climate justice and advocacy. If we are really thinking about climate justice through the lens of changing hearts and minds and changing the behavior, the kind of individualism and extraction that currently orients our world, then we must talk about the spiritual and social resources at our fingertips to shift that. And HDS is thinking about those realms with depth and profoundness, and I think continuing to explore what it means for us to use spiritual resources to shift our behavior will be essential for our future.