On Sunday, October 24th at 3:00 PM - Please join the United Nations Association of Sacramento for this year’s UN Day Virtual Celebration!
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United Nations Day on October 24 comes this year on the eve of one of the most important international meetings ever convened by that body. The November 1-12 United Nations COP-26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow will determine whether our nations can unite sufficiently to save ourselves from what the last three U.N. Secretaries General have all proclaimed to be the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. But we cannot save ourselves without also protecting the natural environment on which we all depend for survival. The threat is global; there is no safety for some apart from safety for all. This crisis can be met only if the world's peoples, as both nation states and societies, come together in common effort, for each other and for the planet we call home.
The Challenge
The UN has never addressed such a dire and difficult challenge, and it must evolve to meet it. Combating a global pandemic is a far simpler task, but even with considerable previous preparation and experience in fighting epidemics, the UN today struggles to contain this pandemic. How will it fare with the far more complex and potentially catastrophic climate crisis with which it has little prior familiarity? As a founding UN member and leading financial supporter, the U.S. must help create and support the intensely collaborative relationships required to effectively address intimidating climate issues we now confront. It can’t do that without understanding and support from home. The challenge is social, and in our communities, as well as political and international. It’s us.
How can we meet it?
Focusing on global interdependence between humans and with nature, our Sacramento area UN Day celebration will consider what full social cooperation addressing the climate crisis both here and abroad might look like and how it can become reality. What old habits of thought and action should we forsake, and what new perspectives, values, ideas, and behaviors should we adopt? How can older generations listen to and help prepare and open the way for younger ones, who after all have the greatest life-stake in the future? How can we include everyone, young and old, rich and poor, here and elsewhere, reaching out to each other in the compassion and solidarity needed to nurture and save each other, world civilization, and the beautiful blue planet we inhabit? How can we start that saving embrace of each other and nature right here, in our Sacramento area communities? What are we already doing that is a step in the right direction, and how can we build on that?
Come join us in our virtual October 24 UN Day celebration to re-imagine what a more inclusively and compassionately interconnected world addressing the climate crisis would look like. Then help achieve it.
Speakers
Elk Grove Mayor, Bobbie Singh-Allen
Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento Board Member Dave Lyman
Compassionate Capital Region Founder, Laura Hansen
PSR/Sacramento President, Harry Wang
Nadine Clopton, Vice President, Global NGO Executive Committee, NGO Youth Representative to the United Nations, International Youth Activist
