Spirituality and Ecological Hope

Fostering Ecological Hope

Today from Margaret Swedish:

Following up from yesterday's post on the Army Corps, this thought from The End of Nature by Bill McKibben:

"The momentum behind our impulse to control nature may be too strong to stop.  But the likelihood of defeat is not an excuse to avoid trying.  In one sense it's an aesthetic choice we face, much like Thoreau's, though what is at stake is less the shape of our own lives than the very practical question of the lives of all other species and the creation they together constitute.  But it is, of course, for our benefit, too.  [Robinson] Jeffers wrote, 'Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is/organic wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.  Love that, not man / Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken' [please forgive all those male nouns and pronouns].  The day has come when we choose between that wholeness and [the human] in it or [the human] apart, between that old clarity or new darkness."

Right.