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Christians Should Be in the News Cycle, but Not of It
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by Hope Jahren
Readers of the
Christian Century are unlikely to dismiss climate change worries as socialist propaganda. But we all have neighbors who are unconvinced. “Go ahead and drive a Prius, eat only veggies, stop using straws, and install solar panels,” they say, “if it makes you feel good. But weather changes all the time, and scientists don’t agree on why. Coal plants are way cleaner than they used to be, anyway. Can I give you a lift to the corner store in my Hummer?”
If you’re looking for a book to recommend during the drive, Hope Jahren’s is a good choice. She invites readers on a breezy but well-documented tour of the major systems, both natural and cultural, that are in grave danger because of climate change. Her short book, heavy on facts and light on preaching, reviews what we know, and what we don’t know yet, about the challenges of the Anthropocene era (although she never uses that term). She focuses on the culture of more, more, more which
When I was small, my
ǧáǧṃ́p, (grandfather), would set about the serious business of food gathering with my cousins and me in the late spring. Everyone in the family had a role in our food harvests and backyard cannery, and the children’s role came early in the salmon season. As children, we believed the whole success of the harvest, not only of berries but also of the salmon that soon followed, depended on our performance. Our ǧáǧṃ́p would furnish us with buckets, hammer nails into the ends of long, split cedar sticks, and gravely send us off on a mission to find
Churchill: Consider the dandelions
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A man mows a dandelion-covered lawns in Waterford, NY.John Carl D Annibale/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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Dandelion puffs on a lawn in Bethlehem, N.Y.Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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ALBANY - In Washington Park on Friday, admirers gawked and cooed at the celebrated spring tulips. They took photos of them. They crouched for a closer look. They chattered about the brilliant colors.
There was another flower prevalent in the park, its small yellow blooms dotting the park’s green grass. They received little attention or respect. No gardener had attended to their needs. They were dandelions, and they earned no praise.
La amenaza climática
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