“12 years” is our chance to get it together, or…
My reply to a twitter commenter making what he thought was a joke about the “the world is going to end in 12 years”: https://twitter.com/Acool2Minutes/status/1096812647520108545
Category Archives: Occupy Theology
the end of the world AND the end of the month
“I think the brilliance of the Green New Deal framework is that it doesn’t ask people to choose. It says, “We all care about the end of the world. But we also care about the end of the month. So how do we design policies that simultaneously lower emissions and lower that economic strain?” And that’s exactly what they’re trying Continue Reading
My “problem” with Naomi Klein
I have a “problem” with Naomi Klein in that I can never stop succumbing to the temptation to quote too much of her articles. No surprise that her book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate” was THE one I point to that really did set me on a new path in my theological mission and focus: To help enable Continue Reading
The Powers That Be Need To See a real grassroots “threat”
“Of course it mattered to have FDR in power instead of Herbert Hoover, but it mattered even more to have an organized population which was flexing its muscles in every conceivable way in the 1930s—from sit-down strikes in auto plants, to shutting down the ports on the West Coast, to shutting down entire cities with general strikes. And it mattered Continue Reading
“a time of multiple overlapping crises”
On the #GreenNewDeal: “It’s about understanding that we are in a time of multiple overlapping crises, and that we are on an incredibly tight deadline when it comes to lowering greenhouse-gas emissions in time to prevent truly catastrophic warming. In order to bring people along with these necessary changes, there have to be benefits in the here-and-now in terms of Continue Reading
GreenNewDeal is drawing a lot of obfuscating arguments
There’s a CNN interview(linked below) with AOC that right wingers (and many “moderates”, like CNN) are touting as “showing how unrealistic AOC and the #GreenNewDeal is in terms of affordability” . But , as usual, a great deal of obfuscation is involved. This articles explains what we need : Which is more context and actual economics. ““[it is] deceptive .. Continue Reading
“but rather artists”
The following gem* stuck out for me in one of my friend and teacher’s extraordinary stories he has shared: ““During one visit to our apartment, Herman is excited to tell me about one of his discoveries. He was translating an Ethiopian Targum (Hebrew O.T. text translation into an ancient indigenous language) when he noted something important. The ancient scribe had Continue Reading
Been “doing this” for 30 years
Another stinger from McKibben in his New Yorker article about the Feinstein debacle: “The irony is that, when Feinstein said she’s been “doing this for thirty years,” she described the precise time period during which we could have acted. James Hansen brought the climate question to widespread attention with his congressional testimony in 1988. If we’d moved thirty years ago, Continue Reading
“Youth carry the moral authority here”
“youth carry the moral authority here, and, at the very least, should be treated with the solicitousness due a generation that older ones have managed to screw over. ” McKibben in The New Yorker (linked earlier today)
“in just the past three decades”
“Many perceive global warming as a sort of moral and economic debt, accumulated since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and now come due after several centuries. In fact, more than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades. Which means we have done as Continue Reading
Leaving it to the professionals
In the below examples, one leaves it to the trained professionals. So why do we make an EXCEPTION where Climate Scientists are concerned? We all of a sudden become eager to say “leave it to God”. One could say that God gave us science to advance and understand life, and use it to heal and restore where needed, and to Continue Reading
Scaring us with the “spectre” of “Green New Deal”
“It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people. And it’s very clear that they have one big problem: The hell they’re building through inaction is a lot scarier than “upgrading all existing buildings.” — Bill McKibben (in “Climate Change Is Scary—Not the Green New Continue Reading