Author: Jan

Caring for the Earth. Chester Ronning Series March 4 on-line session. Positive experience!  Thanks to Rev. Dr. Dittmar Mündel and Carmelle Javney and Tiff McNaughton and the ds106 folks and Leslie Lindballe for an inclusive, thought provoking evening.   My first on-line and blogging experience – so I have a learning curve to master, but due to time constraints I thought I would try to participate this way.

And the Vancouver group even said ‘hello’!    To answer the closing Q…‘the song that sung to me most’ was the contention that:

1.  the extractive companies have become the imperial power and
2. A different discourse is possible – one that sustains life.

For some reason, this was not self-evident to me. Thanks everybody.

 

We don’t ask systemic questions enough. A child dies of tetanus poisoning because of poverty issues – subsistence farmers can’t afford shoes. Or costs of pharmaceuticals are out of reach of the countries that produce them for the global economy. I have heard it said that the first right of entitlement is the right not to know.