The thing Bill McKibben said in the interview I read yesterday, and posted in my timeline yesterday, still sticks with me. Seems it is the way I am feeling it as well:

“The job seems to be just to get up in the morning and figure out what one can do with maximum effect that day to change the odds a little bit. Even if one only changes the odds a tiny bit in the course of one’s life—the thing that we’re gambling over—the stakes are so high that a small change in the odds is a useful life’s work.”

Indeed it is,  and so I seem to be pounding at a door where the occupants are watching a movie with the sound turned up loud,  so they don’t hear me at the door.  (In case you don’t realize it,  those occupants are the powers that be in the church,  and I am trying to tell them that the time is now (it’s actually yesterday)  for them to be working with a bit more urgency (“a bit” is some sarcasm,  because it needs to be “turned up” quite a bit,  so we can tell a different story from that which is blaring in our culture).  We , the church,  need to be, at every turn,  blasting the message that we don’t have anymore time to be ignoring this.  We don’t have anymore time to keep relegating this to the back pages.  We certainly have a lot going on.  But NONE of the rest of it has such a small window of time.  If we fail to achieve a significant shift, NOW,  then the chaos will swallow everything. And the church will have failed to have brought the needed prophetic word.   And this isn’t “crystal ball” prophecy.  It’s “confronting the powers that we have allowed to convince us of a false story” prophecy.  That’s the true cosmic battle throughout Scripture,  and we have a deep, dark, example of it happening before our eyes,  and the earth knows it.

Back to Bill:

“I’m afraid that there’ll still be plenty to work on around poverty and war and hunger fifty years from now. But if we’re still fighting the basic battle around climate change fifty years from now, we will have lost. There’ll be nothing left to fight for. If we don’t turn the tide quite quickly, it won’t be turned. And that is one of the dangers with this particular issue, because it’s the first truly time limited issue like this we’ve ever faced. One does feel a kind of moral imperative to keep battling hard all the time and not take time off, and I grapple with that on occasion”
— from “A Conversation With Bill McKibbeninterviewed by Gareth Higgins
https://www.theporchmagazine.com/despair-is-not-a-strategy/ p.20