Julia Neuberger

Julia Neuberger

Chair, Commission on the Future of Volunteering in England

Baroness Julia Neuberger is an ordained rabbi and member of Britian's House of Lords. The "On Faith" panelist also is a trustee of the British Council, Jewish Care, and the Booker Prize Foundation, as well as founding trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable Trust. She has served as Chairman of Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust and Chief Executive of the King's Fund—a major independent health charity. Currently she chairs the Commission on the Future of Volunteering in England . In the House of Lords, she is a Liberal Democrat member and in early 2006 she was Bloomberg Professor at Harvard University Divinity School . Neuberger writes, speaks, makes trouble, and has published several books, of which the latest is The Moral State We're In (2006). She is working on a book about old age, and thinking about a new book on death and dying, as well as one as a counterblast to Richard Dawkins on why religion is so important in the rather godless United Kingdom. Close.

Julia Neuberger

Chair, Commission on the Future of Volunteering in England

Baroness Julia Neuberger is an ordained rabbi and member of Britian's House of Lords. The "On Faith" panelist also is a trustee of the British Council, Jewish Care, and the Booker Prize Foundation, as well as founding trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable Trust. more »

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West's Waste Causes Environment Damage in Poor Countries

The environment has to be an issue for all people of faith. If one believes, as people of faith do, that our world is God-given, then it is clearly given to us to take care of it. If all we do is 'mess it up', then we are behaving irresponsibly and arguably recklessly.

The imperative is to take care of our world is a strong one. But there is an added dimension.
The harshest effects of global warming--flood levels rising, unbearable heat, instability in coastal plains, are felt in the poorest areas of the poorest countries.

One other thing for people of faith to think about is the extent to which we are all interconnected wherever we live in the world, so that our excessive carbon emissions may mean, indirectly, poor Bangladeshis having their village flooded. So not only are we responsible for looking after our world, but we are also responsible for taking care of the poorest, whom we affect worst when we disregard our duty to our environment.

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