Covering the Climate
"Very few regrets, I thought, except this one: that we had not done justice to this huge, overshadowing, overwhelming issue of...Climate Change." -- Alan Rusbridger, Guardian
/ August 3, 2015
Civilization to Holocaust
The “modern” world quickly abandoned Greek wisdom. Seventeenth-century scientists constructed a machine out of the sacred natural world and cosmos of the Greeks. Even humans started thinking like machines.
/ July 24, 2015
Seeing and What Is Seen
My argument is that thinking that leaves subjects out of the picture not only ignores the fundamental reality, but also does practical damage.
/ July 20, 2015
Tell the Truth about Climate?
Should climate scientists frankly tell the public just how dire the situation is? On this question, there are differences of opinion within the climate community.
/ July 13, 2015
Why Care About Greece?
The history of a world composed of nation states has not been a pretty one. Why should we care? It is not promising that governments are ceasing to be sovereign. It is hard to expect transnational corporations to make the decisions needed to save the habitability of the planet.
/ July 12, 2015
My Own Nano-World
Our knowledge of the microscopic world has exploded. For machines, without human programming, to “communicate” and “sense” does indeed sound “almost magical.”
/ July 7, 2015
Earth Is One. World, Not Yet
Marilyn Hempel on population: "We're still adding about 220,000 people a day. The question is: what will be left, of civil society and of the non-human world, by the time human population finally stops growing."
/ July 6, 2015
Laudato Si’: All Together
John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker with more on Laudato Si': On June 30, 2015 a high level discussion was held marking the publication of the encyclical Laudato Si’. The Secretary General has observed that the pope’s “moral voice is part of a growing chorus of people from all faiths and all sectors of society speaking out for climate action.” Cardinal Turkson strongly underscored a basic point of the encyclical, namely, ”We are all in this together.”
/ July 6, 2015
Survival of Nation States
We have a front row seat on the destruction of nation states -- or possibly a refusal to surrender to domination by financial institutions.
/ July 5, 2015
Awakening, a Poem
To become fellow creatures / with ant bee elephant deer / cedar sequoia spruce oak / mitochondria / To live in this world / as one among the multitudinous many
/ June 30, 2015
Sweeney: Ideas Matter
“Reimagining and Reinventing Bodily-Spiritual Health” by Tucker Nichols for Pando Populus. Artwork copyright (c) 2015 by the artist. Do Ideas...
/ June 26, 2015
The Thing with Feathers
I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something.
/ June 26, 2015