Clicking on a blank area, or on the time and date link in the Twitter link below (from the Twitter account of Alex Steffen) will show an entire thread of posts, introducing the notion of “Predatory delay”. This is the force we are facing now with our Climate Crisis.
What Houston shows us, yet again, is that we live in a world of predatory delay.
— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) August 28, 2017
We have powers that be which refuse to let go of their accustomed means of wealth, and they “dig in” and double down. This is also the link between my blog/Web/Social Media presence moving from “Occupy Theology” to “EcoEcclesia”.
The 1% will continue to fortress themselves off from the world that they are leaving us (and which we continue to allow them, since we have LONG acquiesced to the false story they have circulated throughout the “civilized world”: that we have “unlimited growth” before us that is ours for the taking) . It’s the “takers” from Daniel Quinn’s story of “Ishmael”.
Scientists have only very relatively recently begun to awaken us to what this false story has wrought; the unsustainable future (a future long since begun) toward which this pushes us. What we must “Occupy” is that which is actually threatening the future of our own “Occupation”. We are fighting for our Common Home. A New Heaven and a New Earth. An Ecological Civilization. Durable Communities. All of which require of us a “Blessed Unrest”.
