After being preoccupied with Urbana for several weeks, and attacked by a hacker during the same period, Our Father’s World blog is back. Thank you for your patience.
We’ll first update with the dispatches from Urbana09 that were sent out to the Care of Creation e-newsletter list, and within a day or two bring you some of my own thoughts on Urbana09 and how the effort to highlight the environmental crisis turned out.
The present economic crisis poses a dilemma for me.
I’m an environmentalist. And I know that a great deal of the blame for the environmental crisis has to be placed squarely on our culture’s addiction to material goods.
We buy more stuff than we need, we throw out stuff that is perfectly good to replace it with other stuff, and in the process we’re trashing the planet, using up scarce energy resources, and pumping billions of tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, forever changing the future for our children and grandchildren.
People like me should be celebrating the current economic slowdown.
Welcome to the Our Father’s World blog – oh, and I might as well say ‘Happy New Year!’ at the same time.
In a world that is already crowded with opinions, I’m starting this space with limited objectives. I don’t think we’ll save the world from this corner of cyberspace – but maybe I can offer an occasional perspective on a topic that concerns me greatly. I know the process of sharing on these pages will help me sharpen my own thinking. And perhaps some of you will find the results helpful. And if you do, maybe you’ll occasionally take the time to let me know – or just add your own voice and perspective to what I hope will be a genuine conversation.
About me…
Bits and pieces of my story will come out as we develop this conversation. I’m a Read more »
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