We surrendered justice and the common good to the the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer elites who don’t really give a damn about the planet or the people and other living and non-living beings who dwell here.
What to do… Well, read on…
Tags: alices garden, climate change, enbridge, flint michigan, gap between rich and poor, global warming, great turning, greenland ice melting, new universe story, racism, record arctic sea ice loss, scoll kelly, walnut way the commons, wisconsin poverty
The forces of Nature are at work in the volcano eruption in Chile, the devastating earthquake in Nepal, and the social upheaval in Baltimore. It’s all part of a living planet, and we must learn to live differently within it if we are to survive. Ecological and social justice are completely entwined in each other. We cannot have one without the other.
Tags: baltimore unrest, chile volcano, industrial growth, living planet, nepal earthquake, population growth, racism, social and ecological justice
It has one – racism has an ecology. As I wrote a few days ago about fossil fuels, so of racism. What we said about ecology is that it is about “a web of interconnection, intricate, complex, ubiquitous, supporting” – in this case, supporting what? A way of being, entitlement and privilege, attitudes, identities, and […]
Tags: biodiversity, black lives matter, cultural diversity, environmental justice, gaia, human ecology, interbeing, mechanistic thinking, racism, segregation, thich nhat hanh, white flight