Opinion and reporting by Mathew Carr

Jesus Christ, the most famous jew, had key teachings … which can be summarized through several core concepts (see below).

These concepts are being ignored as countries seek to worsen climate injustice by making the poor people fix the climate crisis caused mainly by wealthy so-called Christians. Here’s how it works.

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PBS: https://mountainlake.org/learning-about-world-religions-map/

Christ’s forgotten concepts (Grok):

1. Love and Compassion:
   • Love for God and Neighbor: Often cited as the greatest commandments, Jesus taught to love God with all one’s heart, soul, and mind, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself (Matthew 22:37-40).
   • The Golden Rule: “Do to others what you would have them do to you” (Matthew 7:12).
2. Forgiveness and Mercy:
   • Jesus emphasized forgiveness, teaching that one should forgive others not just seven times but seventy times seven (Matthew 18:21-22). His parables, like the Prodigal Son, highlight God’s mercy and the importance of reconciliation.
3. Humility and Service:
   • Servant Leadership: He washed his disciples’ feet as an example of how leaders should serve others (John 13:1-17).
   • The Last Shall Be First: He taught that in the Kingdom of Heaven, the humble and those who serve will be exalted (Matthew 20:16).
4. Faith and Trust in God:
   • Faith Moving Mountains: Jesus spoke of faith’s power, saying even faith as small as a mustard seed could move mountains (Matthew 17:20).
   • Trust in God’s Provision: The Sermon on the Mount includes teachings on not worrying about material needs, trusting that God will provide (Matthew 6:25-34).
5. The Kingdom of God:
   • Jesus often spoke of the “Kingdom of Heaven” or “Kingdom of God,” describing it through parables as a place of justice, peace, and divine rule that is both present and coming (e.g., Matthew 13).
6. Repentance and Salvation:
   • He called for repentance, symbolizing this through his ministry and parables like the Lost Sheep, indicating that God seeks to save the lost (Luke 15:3-7).
7. Ethical Living:
   • The Sermon on the Mount: Contains teachings on various aspects of moral life, including non-violence (“turn the other cheek”), purity of heart, and going beyond the letter of the law to fulfill its spirit (Matthew 5-7).

While these teachings encapsulate much of Jesus’s message, interpretations can vary widely among different Christian denominations and theological perspectives. However, these core ideas reflect the essence of what Jesus taught according to the Gospels (Grok — apologies for any errors).

I’m setting this out because it’s being forgotten by many people in OECD nations at the COP29 climate talks last month …and pretty much for the past decade.

And this has happened while the rich world (and the rich people controlling the wider UN and the UNFCCC secretariat) pretend the problem is everyones to solve.

At the UN climate talks, the rich countries pretended they need not provide increased climate finance until 2035 (even though the UN Paris climate deal struck back in 2015 clearly says otherwise).

Even worse, the UN seems to be covering up the best way of solving the problem — the creation of direct deals between rich corporations causing the problem and poor nations who quite rightly EXPECT to get finance to leap frog to a cleaner economy and not go down the dirty path travelled by OECD nations.

These deals – the creation of “contribution” carbon credits – could lower the cost of finance in least developed countries and emerging ones … to the benefit of ALL nations (including the pretend-Christian rich ones).

For more on the contribution credits see this:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-152661048

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Because the rich countries failed to come up with finance last month (November 2024), emerging nations have less capacity and leverage to make deals that will be required for climate plans to be submitted by February 2025.

These plans will now be overly onerous for poor countries.

This places them at tremendous disadvantage compared with rich countries that mostly caused the climate problem.

Covering up the importance of these contribution carbon credits, which I contend big countries and the UNFCCC are doing, will slow climate action and is one of the mechanisms being used by the rich to steal the fast-dwindling space in the atmosphere for GHG from the poor.

^{They are seemingly planning to speed their pace of theft in 2025.}

This is not obeying Christ’s golden Rule: “Do to others what you would have them do to you“

Indeed, it’s plain ciminality.

It’s showing no mercy to poor nations after destroying the climate as we knew it.

It’s showing no humility for the greedy behavior of the past — the capture of the atmosphere by reckless living…

…Let me be clear here …while we are all somewhat to blame for the climate crisis, the most to blame by far are those in control of the completely stupid market rules that incentivize destruction of nature and climate. The people in control of these rules are largely the same people making huge money out of them. People who call this out, including me, are deplatformed and retaliated against in highly sophisticated ways.

It’s deliberate that those rules are not changing.

These rich, powerful people make up only about 0.1% of the global population.

How the 0.1% Contains and Exploits the Rest of the World’s Population (4)

These people are showing no mercy or humility.

They are not letting the last be first.

They are not trying to move mountains to do what is right.

They are overly worried about their own material things.

They don’t seem interested in creating a world of justice, peace, and divine rule (by god, who is within each person, though apparently the god within the 0.1% is being ignored).

They are seemingly not repentant at all. It’s no coincidence that the people suffering are largely not Christian.

They don’t seem interested in aspects of moral life, including non-violence (“turning the other cheek”), purity of heart, and going beyond the letter of the law to fulfill the spirit of Christ (Matthew 5-7).

My hope for 2025 is that this changes.

notes (Grok)

• Cultural and Religious Impact: Jesus, as the central figure of Christianity, has a profound global impact. Given Christianity’s widespread influence, Jesus is arguably one of the most recognized figures worldwide. His teachings have shaped art, literature, philosophy, and law across centuries.
• Jewish Identity: Jesus was born Jewish, lived as a Jew, and his teachings were initially directed towards Jews. However, his identity as a Jewish figure is often overshadowed by his role in Christianity, which has a different theological context than Judaism.
• Other Famous Jews: There are other Jews who have achieved significant fame:
  • Albert Einstein is renowned for his contributions to science, particularly the theory of relativity.
  • Moses, in religious contexts, is pivotal in Judaism for leading the Exodus and receiving the Torah.
  • Sigmund Freud revolutionized psychology with psychoanalysis.
  • Anne Frank became an enduring symbol of the Holocaust’s human tragedy.
  • David Ben-Gurion was instrumental in the founding of Israel.