Isle of Wight Quakers ‘Copenhagen Conference’ Silent Vigil.

If you remember in the news recently a mystery graph was drawn in the sand, we reveal – what the significance is to the Isle of Wight.  The Island Quakers are staging 30 minutes of Silent Vigil each morning of the ‘Copenhagen Conference until -12th December’, with anyone welcome to visit on whichever days they are able.

“We are hopeful that our prayerful support will help enable the best possible decisions to be made at this critical time for the planet.”

In a letter to the Isle of Wight County Press the group revealed the significance of the graph:

“I hope we are here, with the graph at the tipping point of CO2 emissions!

We need to give support to our Government to take radical action in the difficult negotiations at Copenhagen in December, we need local councils to embrace green energy, and we need to cut our own carbon footprints, even if we have never done so before. Because if we don’t, that graph will disappear straight up into the sea ……. which is where we will be with rising sea levels, climate change and global warming. It can’t be “business as usual”, but there can still be a good future.”

Quakers welcome all to their Meetings.

We will sit in our usual Quaker Meeting Place – the Rope Store at the Quay Arts Centre. We hope there will be a bulletin of the current discussions that will be read, and that we will hold the silence, which will be explained at the start of each Meeting. We invite you to join us , and hope that you will enjoy the experience.