Huff Post: by Charles Redfern.
Someone picked up scissors and snipped our mentalities. Our thoughts lay like scraps on the floor: thinking is severed from doing; spirituality is cut from its heritage and theological reflection mutates into one-liners from an adolescent-like preacher in an empty comedy club.
Such imagery comes in the wake of recent events on humanity’s most dire concern. Scientists keep filing alarming reports of climate change — including discoveries that CO2 levels surpassed 400 parts per million at least twice this year — and yet we’re on a full-scale policy retreat. Movements for rollbacks in goals for renewable energy rumbled through several states recently, with Republican Gov. Chris Christie dismissing New Jersey’s ambitions as “pie in the sky” and Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloyelevating large-scale Canadian hydro-power in the renewable mix, then raiding clean energy funds to balance the budget.
Categories: Americas, Morality/moral values, Politics