Time for an Eco Reformation

“In 1969, while the worldwide youth "revolution" of 1968 was still in full swing, physicist Werner Heisenberg (who formulated the uncertainty principle) made some observations that provide a fruitful starting point for our topic.

His conference to the Association of German Scientists was titled "Changes in the Thought Structure Produced by Scientific Progress." Actually, he originally intended to call it "How to Carry Out a Revolution," reflecting the fashion at that moment in history.' Heisenberg shows how a revolution takes place in the physical sciences. It is not because some scientists want it, or because a charismatic leader inspires researchers, or out of a sense of seizing the moment. A revolution explodes inexorably in response to new phenomena that can no longer be understood or made to fit within the understanding current at that moment in science.” — Leonardo Boff, "Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor", Orbis Books (1997), p. 187.

Might the 21st Century Ecological Crisis (which began in earnest across the Climate Science community when it became widely known and communicated starting with James Hansen's testimony, because it was well established by then via the science, but not yet aptly communicated by the governments to whom the warnings were entrusted) — might this crisis be the basis for an EcoRefomation: a call to think differently and cast new stories alongside the recovery of long lost narratives that have been subsumed by centuries of "modernity" that has appropriated anti-Earth economic and ethical assumptions? I think so. I KNOW so.

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