I've been thinking of the juxtaposition of Earth Day and Easter. First, how so many Christians talk about how so many people only "come to church" on Easter (aka "Once a year", maybe throw in a Christmas Eve service). "Earth Day" just lends itself to the same abuse of THE ONE DAY being wholly insufficient as "action", especially given the urgency of the Ecological Crisis, which requires something just a bit more pervasive and even radical. (Did you hear me just then? "EVEN Radical". Yes, the urgency and investment and speedy-as-possible transitions required of us far surpasses any "I gave at the office" approach. Sure, "give at the office", but also apply your lives to this, because this is exactly what is at stake. Our lives and so much more. Civilization as we know it.

So what I closed that previous paragraph with is the SECOND point: We must learn to re-think our entire "big problems of the world and what part we are called to address". Rethink our present roles and structures to build and maintain a system of "operation" that fights back at the mess we've built and caused, and also provides some preparedness for what WILL come and is ALREADY upon us. I think we are IN the "Great Disruption" and have been for some time, and we can't afford to "wait for others" to recognize it clearly enough to "snap out of it". Clearly, the more that do that, and the sooner, the better. But our planning, building, and re-thinking has to get serious and extremely vested.