I just saw another list of problems of our present realities in America, and , once again, there is no mention of the Ecological hell we're continuing to build for ourselves and our children.
I posted this in reply:
1/ Worst of all, nobody's talking about the Ecological Crisis, despite our essentially having run out of time to do an achievable transition. The earlier we had begun this, the more affordable and less stressful of a change it would have been. Now we are pushing ...2/

I just read a series of tweets expressing disgust at the U.S. bombing Iran while a laundry list of woes in America , all exacerbated by the outright insane assault of MAGA/GOP/Trump, but once again, like so many "Progressive" critiques, fail to ...1/ ...even so much as mention the Ecological Crisis, as if it hasn't been bearing down on us for the last 30-40 years, and ever so much more apparent and accelerating in the past 5 years. This kind of continued neglect in our national consciousness is going to be ...2/

This "Opinion" is absolutely oblivious to reality. If you look at this writer's other works, it's typical of the media now. A few things about this (a long thread) : 1/
"Guess who Americans want to run the economy? Hint: It's not Democrats. | Opinion usatoday.com/story/opinion/… "Donald Trump's focus on the economy is why Americans elected him president."
This is an astounding thing to say; even more so that it is something that is taken seriously by anyone. Really? TRUMP's FOCUS? First of all, what is "FOCUS" with this guy? 2/

Another quote from my Wendell Berry reading that I just have to relay to you:
"Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to ... 1/ ...incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and ...2/

A Facebook post (see ) from a person I follow asks this question:
"THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY desperately needs a new leader to emerge, a combination of MLK jr., Angela Merkel, Fred Rogers and Fareed Zakaria. Not asking for much. Who’s in your combo?"buff.ly/I30Y71s So I made my contribution:
An Ecological preacher/teacher is needed here, too. MLK was likely to have become one had he lived longer (but had already been calling more attention to the ecological trends than most of his contemporaries). 2/

"... there are an enormous number of people—and I am one of them—whose native religion, for better or worse, is Christianity. We were born to it; we began to learn about it before we became conscious; it is, whatever we think of it, an intimate belonging of our being; ... 1/ ...it informs our consciousness, our language, and our dreams. We can turn away from it or against it, but that will only bind us tightly to a reduced version of it. A better possibility is that this, our native religion, should survive and renew itself so that it may become...2/

Back in the days of Neil Young's big hits ("Old Man", "Damage Done", "Southern Man", etc. ), I , as a 17-18 year old, thought his voice was weird, and I didn't pay much mind to his lyrics or narrative. Today's "me" likes his voice BECAUSE I hear his "voice" ...1/ A much needed unabashed critique. The music artists ought to all get together and do a "We Are the World" style recording of "This Land Is Your Land". For that matter, also the other artists: Filmmakers, photographers, painters, writers, etc. 2/

I believe that most of Western Civilization is all too happy to avail themselves of what I will call "Distraction Denial". That's a form of Climate Crisis denial that gravitates to "anything but". It's "anything but" calling attention to the gravity of the Ecological Crisis. 1/ Progressives are (and understandably, for obvious reasons) all into this, because of the many sub-crises that Trump/DOGE/MAGA are, often very flippantly, tearing down the scaffolding of infrastructures that have kept us, and our economy, from collapsing out of chaos.
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All this, but I SURE DO WISH that we could (at LEAST) mention that we STILL have an Ecological Crisis which demands "we pull out all stops" if we want to prevent ADDITIONAL/WORSE untold suffering, and avoid... 1/
substack.com/home/post/p-16… ... sinking into an unrecoverable hole of runaway Ecological collapse. ("Collapse" is from our human civilization perspective. Earth herself will not "collapse", but she will become increasingly uninhabitable.)
Yes, we **do** have to also "pull out all the stops" ... 2/

To reject a particular interpretation or implementation of something does not mean that one must reject that something itself. It merely means rejecting just that: the INTERPRETATION or IMPLEMENTATION of that something. 1/ No one (or very few, I expect) would say that we should all forms of governance, because of the Trump Administration's inept, cruel attempts to impose Project 2025 on the country. They are rising up and resisting because of the vision of something better: 2/

I've attended "Hands Off" rallies, and written/spoken widely to many others about the renegade, lawless, corrupt White House and GOP we have. But in seeing this happen across the country, as encouraging as this is, is also ... 1/ ... what SHOULD have been happening re: the Ecological Crisis for decades. That it has not is only indicative of the denial at work in most of the American public that we even have a crisis, so why take to the streets about it? 2/

A post I shared on Facebook in 2016, from Jim Rigby:
"Traditional Christianity often teaches three doctrines that make it harder for believers to respond to the ecological crisis.
First, is the idea of a special creation where a sacred being created a profane world. 1/ If nature is not seen as itself holy, we may neglect this planet while striving for some other, supposedly better, world. We must instead teach, as scripture affirms, that this world is a precious gift and we are its caretakers. 2/

This is , by far, the worst of the possible consequences of regimes such as Trump's being elected, but it seems that everyone is fighting back against everything BUT his insane, flippant, ignorant attacks on all the ecological protections that have been put in place. 1/

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1910432485365997639

We've long needed so much more than the protections that we have in place ,especially in addressing the fossil fuel use, which must be eliminated ASAP , alongside building up alternative energy sources and upgrading our systems (replacing some as needed) to enable them. 2/

A facebook Post of mine from 7 years ago today showed up in my "Facebook Memories":

Highlights:
“There are rabbit-holes galore in the Biblical study of Creation. 1/facebook.com/dlature/posts/… The Biblical narratives are incessant at keeping the significance of the Earth and Creation front and center: The Bible begins with the Creation Story that centers on the notion that God is Creator. 2/