Here's a thought: since the end of the climate change conference many have complained that it was a complete 'failure'. Although this is true it seems wrong to me that no one blames the average western consumer. It seems to me that their complacency (or OUR complacency?) in consuming way too much oil, producing way to much waste and generally living like we can have as much energy as we want (which we do not) since the end of World War II is the cause our current crisis.
Big business? PLEASE. The businesses only produce what we want them to produce because they can sell it to us.
Corrupt governments? Maybe. But an even worse self-deceiving,gluttonous and corrupt citizenry.
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How true. I was watching The Daily SHow and they had a clip of some bobblehead of a woman on Fox News (I think) claiming that climate change is simply a way for the 3rd world to force us to to lower our (The US's) standard of living so they can increase theirs... and she said it like it was a terrorist plot! How self -centred we have become in our society.
ReplyDeleteAnyway in response to your Liberation Theology urges - possibly we need less of a Liberation Theology and more of a theology of Liberation. The difference being the emphasis needs to be on the totality of God's work of liberation for His people - not so much on territorial issues, which is where Lib. Theology seems to get stranded.