Issues around the environment and humanity’s stewardship towards the Earth are big around here at the FSF. It’s one of the two great urgencies of the times in which we live.
When writing about any issue touching the environment, I usually give a great deal of thought to whether the tone of my posts is too dark. I often agonize over such things, truth be told.
But the news is so overwhelmingly bad as the bill comes due, so to speak, for humanity’s stunning and persistent failures to take care of our planet that merely passing along the plain truth about all this can sound like some blogger woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
I came across writer Dahr Jamail’s article in Truthout yesterday and could see right away that its message was timely, spot-on and needed the widest possible dissemination.
It details a lot of the most recent events that have those of us who keep an eye on environmental issues from getting much sleep. It’s not an easy read.
But you should read it. All of it.
The part of the article that deals with the importance of feeling the shock and grief that any of us feels when coming to grips with the reality of our planet’s degradation is vital. Don’t shrink back from that part of the piece. Let it all the way in.
There are so many engaged in this work. The work of sounding the alarm as we rush ever-closer to the abyss.
Don’t stop reading. Don’t turn a blind eye.
It’s time for all of us to look unflinchingly at the truth and take the actions this grave situation demands.
Brother Ben
© 2019 Ben Lawrence Basile
The Fellowship of St Francis 