“You might say we are blinded by our measurements. As a result, when the economy experiences a recession or a crash, next to nobody questions whether the system itself is sound and sustainable. The only question is how to get it growing again at its pace of extraction, consumption, and destruction. About this consumptive way of life, the economist Herman Continue Reading
I am struck this morning, while reading Naomi Klein’s account of various uprisings in different countries being saddled with austerity/shock treatments, that our country may well have brought on the Trump phenomenon by basically missing the opportunity to self-correct ,or heed the voices crying out during the Occupy movement of 2011-2012. Five years down the road, when the camps are Continue Reading
This first paragraph is a repost of a Facebook status update from yesterday as reports came in of Congress rushing through “repeal ACA” votes under the cover of darkness. What follows is a comment I added almost immediately to elaborate on EVIL. Is there any more doubt in anyone’s mind that this Congress prefers darkness? They work their evil while Continue Reading
This page : http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/eco-justice under the “Ministries” tab actually shows up as a drop down from the Home page, so they have the best “presence” yet found. This is not exactly a glowing report. As I have been maintaining, this seems to me to be warranting a significant, theologically challenging and reformation-inducing confrontation that strikes at the core of who Continue Reading
EVANGELISM , a theological staple, must become MUCH MORE about the “GOOD News” about the BAD News that is growing year by year: which is that Humankind, drunk on it’s “miracles” of production , driven by fossil fuels, has alternatives. And it is going to take the kind of local, national, and global collaboration that we already need to battle Continue Reading
I had this comment to make as I got trollled in a thread on The Hill (which is the norm there, as it is absolutely overrun with right wing trolls). This one was in a thread under an article that was titled “Sanders courts Trump voters”, which is a terrible title based on the quote from Sanders that prompted it, Continue Reading
Saw a couple of these today as I went out. My first thought was, and what of the Lack of markers of the turning of seasons? The coming of winter? And the invoking of Jesus as “the reason”, as if that invoking is sufficient to represent some universally accepted theology (which it is FAR from doing, most least of all Continue Reading
The Paris climate talks present a lowest common denominator of global politics, not the aspirations of the global community. It’s the people on the streets who provide the real hope for addressing the climate crisis. – David Turnbull Source: Oil Change International responds to Paris climate agreement – Oil Change InternationalOil Change International
