The sticky, awkward problem of ecological crisis included in “lists” of causes

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

I love this article I have linked, with one problem, that I struggle to articulate, but feel I must.Please read this OP and Like or React to it rather than the linked article, because John Pavlovitz will no doubt (and deservedly so) get a whole lot of LIKES (on Facebook and on his website) on this. But I am posting Continue Reading

The Road Must Travelled

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

I drew up this diagram back in 2016, when I was pondering the Presidential race in the backdrop of the growing Ecological Crisis (but I edited it to replace “Clinton” with “Gradualist” (which is the kind of Democrat who doesn’t really believe in a Green New Deal level approach): A key for my terrible scribbling as I “drew” this up:Starting Continue Reading

Facing our future with a dose of cold hard reality

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

“The planet on which our civilization evolved no longer exists. The stability that produced that civilization has vanished; epic changes have begun. We may, with commitment and luck, yet be able to maintain a planet that will sustain some kind of civilization, but it won’t be the same planet, and hence it can’t be the same civilization. The earth that Continue Reading

Global warming may be twice as bad as previously expected

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

This was posted to a blog 10 years ago, and I ran across it in McKibben’s Eaarth ( footnote 69, p. 27) , which I am re-reading. Couldn’t find it anywhere else (even on USA Today website). https://environmentalsupport.blogspot.com/2009/06/global-warming-may-be-twice-as-bad-as.html Global warming may be twice as bad as previously expected Global warming will be twice as severe as previous estimates indicate, according Continue Reading

Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben on “Falter”

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

Speaking of “Holy Conversation”: Here is one of the variety that we in the church need to have in a theological context. It was Naomi Klein’s 2014 book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate”, that launched me into a mission/calling from which I have not turned back (and won’t be for the duration). I went straight from reading this Continue Reading

Learning an “Eco Lingo”; how do we become fluent in EcoTheology?

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

For almost 5 years, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of “comfort” in being able to respond to news such as the Ecological Crisis. The list of other issues that Progressives are very willing to discuss (and I am also), racism, immigration, abortion, Islamaphobia, War and Peace, The Christian Right’s capitulation to the American Empire…all of these things are undoubtedly urgent Continue Reading

Watching our language in reference to the Ecological Crisis

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

My friend Tim Gossett tagged me yesterday re: an article in the Guardian on “language usage about the environment”with this:“You have some new phases to add to your vocabulary, Dale Lature “ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment I replied, which resulted in several comments , which I will post this morning as comments (as often happens in comments as people interact with me on Continue Reading

“Soft Denial” is a big problem for some Progressive/Liberals

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

This is a problem we have even in the “sane” side of responses to the Ecological Crisis. We have what I have been calling “soft denial”, which “recognizes that we have a problem, but somehow hasn’t let it sink in that it is far worse than what would be headed off by “incremental solutions”, which have gotten us far on Continue Reading

The ecological crisis “time limit”

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

More on my thoughts about the “soft denial” that permeates a lot of “Progressive/Liberal” thinking re: the Ecological Crisis. This quote from McKibben has a lot to say to illuminate my sense of how inadequate are all of our accustomed-to political language.  “The question of time is the question that haunts me. I remain optimistic enough to think that in Continue Reading

The “soft denial” argument

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

The typical “soft denial” argument: “You do know nothing gets accomplished in politics without compromise? What’s more important: your ideology, or actually doing something?” Me: Ecology doesn’t run on polls; it doesn’t “take into account” what we think. It merely deals with the balances or lack of it. We need to face up to that, and “adapt” (which means to Continue Reading

Drawdown Conference , Fayetteville , AR , April 27, 2019

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

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Drawdown Conference, Fayetteville , AR – Welcome, Opening Remarks

Drawdown Conference, Fayetteville, AR: Session 1- Case Study for Good Neighbor Solar Array

Drawdown Conference: Session – Ethical Land Use

Drawdown Conference: Session -Ten Ways To Green Your Church or Nonprofit

Drawdown Conference: Session – Plant-Based Diets

Drawdown Conference, Fayetteville , AR : Session – Energy Efficiency Programs For Non-Profits

Drawdown Conference – Session: Bike Infrastructure / Walkable Cities

Drawdown Conference: Keynote

Drawdown Conference — Session: Nature Conservancy

Drawdown Conference: Session – Net Zero Plus

Drawdown Conference: Session: Carbon Policy Updates

Drawdown Conference: Session: Motivating Yourself To Movement on Climate Change

Drawdown Conference: Session – Stormwater – Quality + Quantity

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“Taking without asking”: the experience of Native Americans of the invasion of Euro-settlers

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

Dances With Wolves, which I watched in segments over the past week, is like a parable for the ecological damage done to the world. It was more than a parable to the Native Americans who experienced it directly, in many cases all the way to their own premature deaths. When they spoke of “the white men coming” in the film, Continue Reading

Those dangerous politicians who “mix politics and faith”. Gnostics hate that.

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

More gnostic theology. People who actually value public engagement and public policy as a crucial collaboration with human civilization in order to actually help people and planet are seen to be “dangerous” somehow. This is gnosticism at it’s most destructive.

Western dualism pollutants

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

“All of our lenses have various perspectival tints, but Western worldviews seem to have several in common, including the foundational influence of Platonic dualism, inherited from the Greeks. This particular influence absolutizes the realm of the abstract (spirit, soul, mind) and reduces the importance of the concrete realm (earth, body, material), disengaging them from one another. In dualistic thinking, we Continue Reading

The “Progressive” Kingdom

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Dale Lature G+ — Leave a reply

“The left is rightly committed to a separation of church and state … but we need to not be afraid to invoke arguments that are convincing on why Christian faith is going to point you in a progressive direction.”  This is a very good brief statement on a “Church and State Separation” articulation that also does not preclude “ANY mention” Continue Reading