We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Pope Francis's climate letter is a radical attack on the logic of the market

Click here to access article by Steffen Böhm from Ecologist. 

Strange that I haven't seen this reported in mainstream media. (sarcasm)
What makes Pope Francis and his 183-page encyclical so radical isn't just his call to urgently tackle climate change.

It's the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies.