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@dlature
Aug 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Trump is a walking , talking (barely, on both counts) disaster on the ecosystem of American politics, economics, and justice. The Republicans knew wo he was, and put him forth as "their candidate" because he can be bought with any promise of benefits to himself. /1
They are as guilty as the fossil fuel companies are for the ecological disasters of fossil fuels, because the fossil fuel companies KNEW the dangers and hid it from the public, for their own selfish gain. The Republican Party is also similarly guilty: They knew who Trump was 2/
...and still is, and they STILL support and protect him to the absolute detriment of the the quality of life for most all Americans, especially the less fortunate. Trump is the fossil fuels of American politics. He's deadly to unleash on everybody. 3/
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Aug 22
Eco-Reformation* is needed! Nothing less, for STARTERS.
“It is now time for us to do a collective calling-in for our survival. And we’re going to need these folks who claim to hold the moral center of our hearts and our societies to actually understand that if ... 1/
... you are neutral, says Bishop Desmond Tutu, in the face of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. We have to understand what moral leadership is and who’s worthy of informing our ethos.” —
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right? 2/
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (p. 379). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
* 2017 marked 500 years since the Protestant Reformation. As big and significant that was, this Ecological one is FAR BIGGER and FAR more significant, because... 3/
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Aug 20
The U.S., and especially now, under the Trump regime: EcoCrisis Denial (tear down all structures and efforts to understand and detect Climate Change and other Ecological effects happening), Health System attacks (Underfund, and then , now, DE fund all health systems) 1/
Disaster readiness : Underfund, and now DE fund all warning systems, deny funding to any further research and planning for ongoing and continuing disasters, Education (Under fund, make more expensive while destroying the real value of that education by cutting education ....2/
.... across the board. This is the rolling disaster that exacerbates physical and ecological disaster: denying there is any problem with A)What human civilaztion is doing to the earth's ecosystems B)That things are going to get worse, especially if we persist in this path ...3/
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Aug 20
“Real preparation is addressing risks before the disaster happens and then making sure we have a collective response to the disaster carefully planned out.” — Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (p. 352). Random House Kindle Ed. 1/
Just like the looming and already accelerating ecological rolling disasters. We have not been "ruggedizing". Instead, we've been exacerbating it all. We've been "willing" (aka "blinded" or "placated") complicit bystanders, denying that any of this is happening, or that... 2/
... we could have acted MUCH MUCH earlier, and saved Trillions of dollars. TRILLIONS! (Much of that "trillions" is already "baked in"). This is the ongoing "Predatory Delay" we've been standing by and allowing to metastasize into an even worse, monstrous problem. 3/
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Aug 17
I am so struck right now (and most other times) at how concerned Bill McKibben was in '08 when he wrote what I'm now re-reading in "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future", and to see how much worse things have gotten, and much faster than he knew then. 1/
McKibben was much better informed (he saw to that by actually delving into the science and writing so effectively about it for a general audience) than most, but even those in the know have since been struck at how much faster things have moved toward the deeper crises.... 2/
...that they (the scientists and those who understood and took seriously their concerns) were presenting as the darker scenarios in their forecasts , depending on what kind of action we take in the months and years ahead. We have not chosen well at all. And far too few... 3/
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Aug 13
The Gaza issue is, very realistically, NOT a religious issue, but a colonization and conquest issue....which is in the Bible from many directions, and examples exist of the wrong side of that, and, of the prophetic condemnation of that, within those same Scriptures; ....1/
...of "Prophetic Imagination" that sees THROUGH that and recognizes the EVIL that is manifested in that. And there is a journey in that process of what we have in that collection. 2/
To take one's chosen "soapbox" and declare THAT as "what the Bible says" is a travesty that leads to appropriation of the worst sorts.
Liberation Theology is, itself, "Biblical" in it's origins. It is something that CAME OUT of reading it in a setting of oppression, 3/
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Aug 9
OK, here's the Space I have scheduled for tomorrow at 10 am Central time.
Pay attention to my "ground rules" or my "guidance" I am going to post as reply to this post. I think it may well veer wildly off topic if I don't do this.
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Biblical Apocalypse has become associated with a lot of rather clueless theology concerning what Apocalypse actually is, or how it was intended to be used by the Biblical authors who employed it. It has ZERO to do with giving a "crystal ball" into events in the 20th-21st... 1/
...Centuries. Biblical authors employed the Apocalyptic genre in order to illuminate ("ie "unveil") what was behind what was happening for their audience, in THEIR contemporary setting. The "Left Behind" stuff is NONSENSE. "Apocalypse" literally means "to unveil". 2/
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