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More on Our Relation to the Cosmos

“From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore or foster a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.”  This is what Thomas Berry said in an interview a few years back, as quoted in his recent “NY Times” obituary.  Berry was […]

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A Different View of Freedom

A truly thoughtful essay from Harry Eyres, Freedom and the price of oil, appeared in this past weekend’s “FT.”  It’s a meditation, to a great extent, on the ecologist Ivan Illich.  Eyres writes of Illich:  “He had the barmy-seeming idea that we would do better – that is to say would lead more human, fairer […]

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