This section of Barnes and Noble for their books that address the Ecological Crisis is actually far better than a lot of bookstores. But still, an incredibly paltry amount**, especially compared to the section on “Current Issues”, as well as Government, Economics, and Science. Just one of the ways our attention is diverted elsewhere, into areas considered “relevant” in a Continue Reading
And our most deadly silence of all? Continuing on with our present course of energy and ecological practices of the status quo of our civilization without any attempts toward a determinative effort to move to a new way of living on this earth. MLK appeared on the world stage with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and then the Civil Rights Movement, Continue Reading
As a participant in the Occupy Movement , now over a decade ago, I am not at all unaware of the many economic dangers of the greatly increased hegemony of the 1% (even more so of the 1% of those 1%), but I continue to be vastly worried at how few people who are warning us about these dangers (which Continue Reading
Yeah, yeah…..Typical status quo economy shit: Says the environment and economy can flourish together climate change is real but that other nations are not doing enough to cut their carbon emissions. He said emissions have decreased in the U.S. in recent decades and other large nations should follow suit. Source: Lee Zeldin, Trump nominee to lead Environmental Protection Agency, says Continue Reading
This is a bad argument: “Strongest economy in history” is nonsense, of course. But Dems citing of certain statistics to say Biden economy is best is also bunk. I’m also not setting up any ridiculous “both sides” argument. I’m complaining about the claim by many Dems that this economy we have right now is the “best ever”. That’s not how Continue Reading
The Biden administration’s costly and coercive crusade to replace internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) with electric vehicles (EVs) is disproportionate to its minuscule climate impact. Source: Opinion | Biden’s all-EV dream lives on, despite a lack of sales or feasibility – The Washington Post Compared to the cost of continued fossil fuel emissions? ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, people. Ecological costs are REAL and Continue Reading
Someone just tweeted a link to Bill McKibben’s first Climate book, “The End of Nature”, which was published/released Jan. 1, 1989. Their tweet said “Should have listened to you in 1989”. It got me thinking about how that was just a couple of months prior to the birth of our first child. And it was prior to the Internet becoming Continue Reading
From Brad Davis on the blog at Accidental Tomatoes: Later this week I’ll make the approximately thirty-mile drive south to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with my family. Once there we’ll do what we always do: gather around the dinner table to partake in a royal feast, watch football (in between the dozing off stemming from gastrological overdose), and tell stories Continue Reading
I am just starting to look into this, but the Green New Deal should also provide for launching us into a housing infrastructure campaign to get tiny homes into the mainstream. It seems that this is yet another area that indicates that we need a New Economy that thinks differently about how we need to live into the future. Tiny Continue Reading
Indeed How utterly clueless and idiotic the Drumpf is. Despicable person shows himself (again).
Far too many evangelicals have been deceived into thinking that the Apocalyptic judgments are for “other people” and not for them, since they have “asked Jesus into their heart” and therefore escape those judgments.
A particularly troubling portion of a comment in a thread under one of my posts in a Facebook group (“The New Methodists”): “we must care for the planet, and yet our priority is the propagation of the gospel of Jesus” This is the problem with the above: We see in that brief sentence fragment a very disjointed, disengaged notion (from Continue Reading
The Ecological Crisis represents what is the most direct assault and consequence of the disengagement from life of the gnostic heresy. To segregate salvation and spirituality into some “internal” transaction is a false move and a distortion of the gospel of Jesus. For sure, there are things happening “within us” as we engage the world from within The Kingdom of Continue Reading
This headline is woefully inadequate. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/09/22/no-one-seemed-to-notice-greta-thunbergs-critique-of-the-green-new-deal But hey, that’s headlines for you. It’s not specifically “Green New Deal”. It’s the political game around it, which has become “IT” because “it” is the present expression of the urgency brewing in the “left” ranks. But many of the people behind the Green New Deal would be the first to tell you that Continue Reading
“The gospel call to love one’s neighbor is, in our time and place, most fully a call to do something about climate change,” he said, “because at the moment, we’re drowning our neighbors, sickening our neighbors, making it impossible for our neighbors to grow food.” — Bill McKibben ?The dominant theological issue?: Environmentalist Bill McKibben wants your pastor at the Continue Reading
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