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“Avoiding the most dire damages of climate change “requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has ‘no documented historic precedent.’” —Coral Davenport citing an IPCC report

Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia D. “Building a Moral Economy” . Augsburg Fortress (2024)

While Trump tweets, Mamdani is appointing transit experts and housing advocates to his administration. While Republicans scream about socialism, he’s planning to make the subway free for anyone making under $50,000 a year.” 2/

Mamdani Proves That Americans Want What We in Europe Already Have On the warning signs we recognize and the hope we share

“Trump’s agriculture secretary is threatening to withhold federal funds from New York now. The president called Mamdani a “communist disaster” on Truth Social at 3 AM. Don’t bother, let them rage. ... — buff.ly/joCdeCw 1/

Climate Gates Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

The fact that Gates framed all this in a way designed to appeal to the president is so obvious that it hardly bears mentioning (the richest men in the world have all been sucking up to him, so no extra shame here)

Climate Gates Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

“The fact that Gates framed all this in a way designed to appeal to the president is so obvious that it hardly bears mentioning (the richest men in the world have all been sucking up to him, so no extra shame here)” — Bill McKibben in buff.ly/rxVICLG

... the consequences pale by comparison). 3/

The Colin Kaepernick syndrome needs to take a back seat to THE existential challenge of our time. Of course, the media, education, politics, and faith communities ALL must speak up and tell it like it is. 2/

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

We need every one of our sane Hollywood voices. Athletes need to step up, too, since we are NOT hearing from any of them on this.
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian buff.ly/BUYwTif 1/

"I was hungry, and you built me a 90,000 square foot ball room adorned in gold"

... ethical assumptions? I think so. I KNOW so. 7/

...to whom the warnings were entrusted)...might this crisis be the basis for an EcoRefomation: a call to think differently and cast new stories alongside the recovery of long lost narratives that have been subsumed by centuries of "modernity" that has appropriated anti-Earth economic and...6/

Might the 21st Century Ecological Crisis (which began in earnest across the Climate Science community when it became widely known and communicated starting with James Hansen's testimony, because it was well established by then via the science, but not yet aptly communicated by the governments ..5/

...at that moment in science.” — Leonardo Boff, "Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor", Orbis Books (1997), p. 187. 4/

It is not because some scientists want it, or because a charismatic leader inspires researchers, or out of a sense of seizing the moment. A revolution explodes inexorably in response to new phenomena that can no longer be understood or made to fit within the understanding current ...3/

...was titled "Changes in the Thought Structure Produced by Scientific Progress." Actually, he originally intended to call it "How to Carry Out a Revolution," reflecting the fashion at that moment in history. Heisenberg shows how a revolution takes place in the physical sciences. 2/

“In 1969, while the worldwide youth "revolution" of 1968 was still in full swing, physicist Werner Heisenberg (who formulated the uncertainty principle) made some observations that provide a fruitful starting point for our topic.
His conference to the Association of German Scientists ...1/

— Marvel, Kate. Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet (p. 151). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. 3/

HEAD OF THE AFRICAN UNION I thought it was going to be much harder, honestly. But I actually kind of liked creating millions of jobs and cleaning up the air and water.
POPE I liked telling the oil and gas industry to go to hell.
HEAD OF THE AFRICAN UNION Well, you would.” /2

LOL. Great future vision she'd like to see described by Kate Marvel:

“HEAD OF THE AFRICAN UNION I’m so glad we solved climate change. That was a close one!
POPE Yes, we should always listen to the scientists. It was very nice of them to warn us.
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“Nothing will be torn down,” Leavitt said when she announced the project in July. buff.ly/I0vUyj5 It's what they say about EVERYTHING. No credulity whatsoever.

This, and things like it, which are EVERYWHERE in the “Progressive Social Media Universe”, are a pet peeve of mine, to which I have the same kind of reaction as Sandy did on her post of this. I'm like: “Uh. hello? Ecological Crisis? Anyone? Any thoughts? Any at all?”

We need a language and a narrative that constantly reminds us us of how what we have built and continue to prop up is a system that is ignoring the basic building blocks of life. Our education, media, religion, and politics has failed u miserably on that score. 2/

The list is yet another example of the huge hole in our awareness of how serious the Ecological Crisis is. Our culture, even the "Progressive" ones, have not acquired (or recognized) the knowledge of the damage that has been done, and is STILL being done. 1/

What about the Ecological Crisis? How does that not even crack this list? It will prevent us from being able to do much of anything other than survive, if even that?

... our devotion to "growth" at all costs. We continue to ignore those ecological costs as they accelerate, and keep blindly pointing to artificial measures that continue to ignore what we're doing to Our Common Home. 2/

Eventually, when increased chaos hits home, we'll realize just how vulnerable and decaying our "economy" has been and is worsening because of our unwillingness to move to an Ecological Economics that realizes (meaning it takes into account) the Ecological Costs of ... 1/

... the people and the land, as well as the accompanying ecological civilization that will be the guiding ecological principle, all honored by both the theology and the politics. 2/

I would call Leonardo Boff a "Deep Liberation Eco-Theologian"; that kinda covers all the bases. The "Deep" adjective add-on testifies to the wholistic nature of the liberation proclaimed and lived, which encompasses the socio-political and economic welfare of ... 1/

The internal logic of the system suggests that there is no such thing as ecology, or, if it does exist, it must be rejected.” — Leonardo Boff, "Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor", Orbis Books (1997), p.86 4/

We likewise witness the clear contradiction between capitalism and ecology. To add the prefix eco to capitalism or to development projects—ecocapitalism or ecodevelopment- simply masks the inherent perversity of capitalism and its development paradigm. 3/