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/

... 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/

... 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/

— 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

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/

... 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/