While governments like Australia close their borders, and the U.S. closes its mind to climate change, Christians are to love our neighbours by linking these justice issues together. The two are not unrelated – climate change can be a driver of significant migration.

It’s not about self-flagellation, guilt or shame, but about waking up and stepping up. It’s about restorative justice that lifts people up, and right living that prevents us from falling into sin. I need to be saved, not from skin, not from gender, but from the throne of privilege.

Scripture supports the view that care for creation is an act of worship, argues Meteorologist Mick Pope of our Ethos environment think tank.