Soil Solidarity No.16
And we are back!!!!
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all...Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” -Wendell Berry
Soil Solidarity is a weekly(ish) series dropping on Sunday’s where I share a handful of recommended reads or resources that I am finding helpful, interesting, or important for tending the “soil” of our hearts and faith. This list will include stuff I am reading, watching, and listening to from week to week that I hope will be worms in the compost bin helping you break down the decomposing matter of your theology and practice so that it can become rich fertilizer for cultivating a healthy relationship with the soil.
Soil Solidarity No.16
Chapter: A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
by David Graeber, Originally published in The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement.
:All this might still seem very distant. At the moment, the planet might seem poised more for a series of unprecedented catastrophes than for the kind of broad moral and political transformation that would open the way to such a world. But if we are going to have any chance of heading off those catastrophes, we’re going to have to change our accustomed ways of thinking.”
You can read this chapter here.
Article : Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash
by Lee Hedgepeth, for Inside Climate News
“The EPA now recognizes the risks of gamma radiation from radium in coal ash, but many states aren’t even sure where the toxic waste has been used. In Alabama, environmental regulators say they do not track so-called ‘beneficial’ uses of coal ash.”
You can read this article here.
Book: A Liberation for the Earth: Climate, Race, and the Cross
by A.M. Ranawana
From the Publisher:
In the encyclical Laodato Si, Pope Francis describes the earth as ‘the new poor’, opening it up as a place in need of liberation. The fate of the poor, the marginalised, and those on the wrong side of the western colonial project is inextricably tied up with the fate of the planet.
In A Liberation for the Earth Anupama Ranawana explores the nexus between climate, race and the liberative potential of the cross. Reflecting on the entanglement between colonialization and the destruction of the planet, she considers how this entanglement is played out and resisted within faith based and secular ecological justice movements in Canada, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.
You can purchase this book here.
Podcast: From Capitalist Realism to Solarpunk Realities
From the episode description:
For episode 147, Joey sat down with Ariel Kroon, Luka Dowell and Andre, aka HydroponicTrash after the four of them took part in the Solarpunk conference a few months ago.
Solarpunk has an eye to a better future, but how do we get there? What is necessary for us to do, and how can we think differently, in order to make this better future possible? We focus on the relationship between speculative fiction, dual power, world-building, and political action.
You can listen to this podcast on here, or on your preferred podcast platform of choice.