Aldo Leopold asked humans to expand their community to include the whole ecosystem – or the land, as he called it in A Sand County Almanac. Most of you reading this blog find it pretty easy to agree with that call, even if it’s difficult to live out sometimes. But all too often as environmentalists, we find it easier to affirm other non-human organisms as community than we do the humans who live in different neighborhoods than us, or have different experiences than us, or make different choices than us, or who just look different than us. ~Deborah McNamara, We Stand with Ferguson – The Connections of Peace, Justice, Sustainability nwei.org/stand-ferguson-connections-peace-justice-sustainability/ The quality of our race relations is a determinate of the strength of civil society. The strength of civil society is a determinate of the quality of our political life. The quality of our political life determines the freedom and justice of our economic institutions. The quality of our economic institutions determine the quality of our lives and, the fate of a sustainable future. Is this clear? Is this off base? What now?
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 13:53:06 +0000
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