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My Hands Tremble As I Try To Say Just How Much I Love My World
Faith is more important than ever before — and so is action
All of last month, I was an absolute wreck. Why? Activists worked hard to shut down London, to bring attention to the climate crisis most of humanity is ignoring.
I was stuck in Hawaii, Hawaii. What is happening here? The Merrie Monarch Festival. Hula. Pretty, but disconnected. People do not seem to take the coming losses very seriously.
From London came outcry not just by Extinction Rebellion, but at them. There were some fine words by Greta Thunberg. I searched through the images, but most of all I searched through apathy, or worse, despair. Worldwide the crisis was side-tracked by Trump, and all the Mueller madness he makes, threats of war with Venezuela and Iran. More loss of reproductive rights in the USA. It’s exhausting, and a dangerous distraction.
Meanwhile, Brave activists glued themselves to Shell headquarters. They staged die-ins. They sang. They drummed. They spoke. They, DID stuff. And that is what makes this action notable — the deployment of civil disobedience to fuel civil discourse.
Enfolding the whole world in our arms is hard
But few people on Earth noticed. Our human “other” ness had brought about yet…