Whenever people do research into the intricacies of history (or , in many cases, "History" as told by "the victors"), and they take care to look into certain economic motivations and drivers, they tend to see very clearly the neoliberal "Greenwashing" and "Equality Washing" done by those forces (very prevalent in the U.S. and other Western techno states). The "Equality Continue Reading
“The climate emergency is bad enough. But if we pause for a moment and look around at the bigger picture, we see that, even with its terrifying implications, it's merely a symptom of a far larger predicament: the pervasive and accelerating devastation of the living Earth caused by the unrestrained activities of modern civilization. Nature is unraveling all around us, Continue Reading
I saw a post from Al Gore where he is referring to the debut of the Climate Iconic movie "An Inconveneint Truth" 20 years ago, and so I pulled my book off the shelf, which I had bought within minutes of leaving the theater after seeing it. When I did, to snap this picture, I saw that I had used Continue Reading
It's actually already in progress. So, short retort is that "it hasn't" https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/05/12/how-the-world-has-avoided-an-oil-catastrophe-so-far?utm\_campaign=shared\_article
It occurred to me this morning as I read about the "Rally" at the National Mall yesterday to "Rededicate the nation to God", that I was thinking about, and hosting a space on Twitter/X on the Biblical narratives of the ecological reality of interdependence of human communities, and the negative effects of the travails of one upon the other. And Continue Reading
I was thinking this morning about Biblical narratives and themes which were vital stories for the calling of God's people in the Hebrew story, and the first one that came to mind was the Exodus; the "Promised Land". I think that this, and others in "Salvation History" are important for us to take forward into the Anthropocene, as we humans Continue Reading
“To me, the dissolution of the modern nation-state into smaller, more anarchic, less centralised units would be welcome. Perhaps then we could rediscover the roots of our old nations, and begin to rebuild them again. Perhaps too, new nations will form, built around a spiritual core and a love of place, which will give to their people the kind of Continue Reading
Gnosticism in a nutshell: “In the worlds of political, religious and economic man, commitment was outwardly directed to those communal beliefs, practices and institutions that were bigger than the individual and in which the individual, to the degree that he or she conformed to or cooperated with them, found meaning. The ancient Athenian was committed to the assembly, the medieval Continue Reading
“The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words. “Ever since God created the world, God’s everlasting power and divinity—however invisible—are there for the mind to see in Continue Reading
“If it is ‘the pursuit of the ideals and methods of modern science that has brought us into this catastrophic situation, clearly there can be no issue from it without the renunciation of those ideals and methods.’[12] That renunciation has to be a long mental and spiritual effort: the sloughing off of a way of seeing; the refusal of the Continue Reading
This is an important observation, which I think should reveal just how inaccurate it is to blame "religion" in general for this mess. It is the drive to power, that mutates both religion and people into slaves of "the machine". It is, to look at it another way, a "religion" of it's own. One of modernity over "superstition". But with Continue Reading
I'd love to open up a can of that look on not only him, but Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Johnson, for starters. Classic. Enduring. Needed.
So the famous passage about "humbling ourselves (as a people)" is read by the President with a total lack of any sign of any humbling of himself. Nothing says "performative" and "oblivious" and "hypocrite" any better.
What will it take to save us? First thing is to take it seriously. “The beginning comes after the end” **…..the old is collapsing under its oldness. We’ve actually been trying to use the old, long sequestered, by extracting and burning, which is a maximum way of “holding on to the past”. Think “overshoot”. Taking a sequestering, balancing process of Continue Reading
The biggest condemnation imaginable for these creeps.