The need is to have clean air, land, access to clean water, and for the ability to grow food in the midst of changing agricultural cycles. The need is for good, solid, scholarly theology of creation care. Also to provide a healthy environment for our children so they can grow up without disease caused by an unhealthy planet. The need is to mobilize communities to be able to protect their “own” land from the destructive effects of extractive industries and development. As well for the need to shift away from a fossil fuel based economy to one based on alternative sources of energy. Along with the need to have an alternative to a mindset that encourages unlimited consumption. An last the need is to live within the means of the earth to provide for all of us equally, to live a very simple existence.