The churches want to fast for the climate: do you recommend to reduce the temperature of the room and not to drive so fast on the highway.

climate of fasting: Because a lot of damage photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa

BERLIN/HANNOVER epd/dpa | Heating in The churches invite to the "climate fast" during lent. For the period from ash Wednesday on the 26. February to Easter Sunday on 12. April is going to be called to put climate protection at the heart of fasting, according to the environmental office of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian upper Lusatia (EKBO) in Berlin on Wednesday.

Even Catholics have called for a climate of fasting. "Each and everyone can participate in it to reconsider their Actions in everyday life, to try New things and to change something", - stated in the message of the Hildesheimer Diözeseanrats, the lay representation of Catholics in the diocese of Hildesheim. The action starts on ash Wednesday.

The fast action under the Motto "as much As you need...". For the Evangelen it is supported, for example, by the Ecumenical Council of Berlin-Brandenburg, which according to its own figures, approximately 32 member churches with a different profile.

Impulse and practical tips for the "climate fast" is it on the same website. The materials are given for almost every week on various topics with practical suggestions. The proposals include, among other things, by a Lowering of the room temperature by one degree on voluntary compliance with the speed limit of 130 kilometres per hour on motorways, to attempt, if possible plastic-free shopping. This has to do with the climate a little.

climate change is causing Suffering, because he endangered the life of humans, animals and plants, it is called on the action website. "Climate protection makes a waiver necessary." He was also a profit if it is successful, to make life more climate-friendly. This action standing in the Christian Tradition, "the thinking of the time before Easter of suffering and consciously practice self-denial, in order to be free for new thoughts and other behavioral years of Almost".

On the website "klimafasten.de" can network various action groups.