Every 30 seconds, a football field worth of America’s natural areas disappears. The loss poses both an environmental and a spiritual threat to people and the planet.
That is why faith leaders are joining with scientists to support the goal that the United States should protect at least 30% of the oceans and land by 2030. It’s called the Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature.
The loss of wild places increases the impact of a changing climate and threatens community prosperity, drinking water and clean air. Habitat loss also makes the American landscape unlivable for many plants and animals.
Globally, three-fourths of the planet’s lands and two-thirds of its oceans have been degraded by human activity. Pressed by agriculture, housing sprawl, climate change, invasive species, pollution and other stressors, approximately 1 million plants and animals are threatened by extinction, one species every hour.
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Democrat representative of New Mexico, Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick for Secretary of the Interior, began her confirmation hearing last week on Tuesday, Feb. 23 and completed it on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Conservative democrat of West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin, is the deciding vote in Haaland’s confirmation, and he has expressed support for her appointment; if confirmed, she will be the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet.
Leaders in Native government are looking forward to her appointment. Kandi White, the Native Energy and Climate campaign director for the Indigenous Environmental Network, thinks it will be impactful to have a Native woman leading the Department of the Interior, as Haaland not only understands the government-to-government relations between Native people and the U.S. but also understands the disproportionate effect of climate change on Native communities (Rott, 2020). Overseeing the Department of the Interior “w
Rep. Deb Haaland, nominated to lead Interior Department, draws praise from Nevada tribal leaders Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/27/2021 Amy Alonzo, Reno Gazette Journal
In 2018, Deb Haaland made history as one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress. Haaland is making history again as the first Native American nominated for a federal cabinet position and Nevada’s tribal leaders are celebrating the moment.
President Joe Biden tapped Haaland, a two-time New Mexico congresswoman of Lagua Pueblo heritage, to lead the nation’s Department of the Interior.
“It’s a great accomplishment for Native Americans across the country,” Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Chairman Arlan Melendez told the Reno Gazette Journal.
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