Don’t Fall into the Doomsday Trap
Hi Everyone,
A happy week to you!
I am doing some work for a new project called Jewish Climate Initiative- a non-profit dedicated to developing a Jewish response to the global climate crisis by consulting ancient Jewish ethics, mobilizing our nation’s passion for social action and directing our abilities in science and technology toward solutions in sustainable living.
I’d like to refer you to a post I just wrote for the initiative’s blog, Climate of Change, called “Don’t Fall into the Doomsday Trap.” I’d really like your feedback on this one- sometimes I write something and am not super positive I agree with it (odd as that might sound). So check it out and let me know! (You can leave me comments here on Unpacked (if your comments are bad) or at Climate of Change (if your comments are good.) (Just kidding- you can leave me any type of feedback anywhere).
Also- I highly recommend subscribing to Climate of Change-the founders of Jewish Climate Initiative, Rabbi Julian Sinclair and Michael Kagan are pretty brilliant guys with credentials up the wazoo, and they always have interesting, creative (and well-written) things to say- so have a look! (As a by-the-way, “Wazoo” originally meant trap door. It’s also a nickname for Washington State University. Just thought you’d be interested…)
The post begins like this:
Environmental sensitivity has a trap: Actions too often become a “Fight Against.” I stop acting “in order to,” but rather, “to beware of”- whether that “Beware of” is carbon emissions, pollution, pesticides or the like.
Not that caution is a bad place from where to act- crises like climate change give us the urgency that (hopefully) makes us change. But that urgency should not only encourage us to ward off disasters, but to re-examine our experience in this world and discover what it is we are missing that brought about these crises in the first place.
Let’s take eating local foods as an example: Click Here for the Full Article
I look forward to hearing from you,
Yannai
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May 21st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hey Yan (and who ever is looking at the screen right now :).
and 1 thought was that amy be because it fits TOO good to the Blog it was posted in.So is does fit great,but it doesnt mean it’s wrong. Stam,thanks for the stuff,i think i do agree with it (at least after a brief reading) and it’s good and deep part of our life’s wich has been taken from us by the Global village (kfar globali).
I was thinking why whouldn’t you agree with what you have written (as far as all the environmental arguments are correct
In addition to the Jewish aspect ,we should try and feel/apretiate the fact of us being in the Holy land,at least on a spiritual level,especially on shviit.
P&L