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Prayers for the people of New Orleans
It doesn’t seem right for the US Republican Party to go ahead with its own promotional spend-fest immediately after the Democrats’ own mega-million jambouree, with New Orleans facing another hurricane, another genuinely doomsday scenario. Presidential candidate John McCain is on record as having said that “it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster”–and most, irrespective of their politics, would agree. When grand scale disaster strikes, partisan political events serve no-one, and can backfire.
tags: coastal erosion, disasters, emergencies, global warming, hurricanes, New Orleans, weather patterns2008: a new home, new ways of living, new thinking
2008 was the year I predicted, somewhat casually at some point in the previous 12 months, that the proverbial shit would hit the fan with regard to the world economy, climate change, and fossil fuels. It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to have been right, but the end of rampant, unfettered consumerism—or at least its death throes—affords us new opportunities to learn how to work with, instead of against, the natural world. We spend less, we cut back on usage, we make less waste, we recycle more. That’s the hope, and it makes sense financially now as well as environmentally.
tags: 2008, 2009, anniversaries, Battery Hen Welfare Trust, battery hens, Big Brother, blessings, broomstick culture, cultural memes, Druidism, eco-towns, environmentalism, intensive farming, meat, moving house, Paganism, politics, privacy, spirituality, technology, Tesco, Witchcraft
