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Raging Fires in LA:
Are Climate-Denying Politicians Criminals? 1/11/2025 |
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A few days ago I was in a conversation with a Lutheran pastor in Florida and he was saying that the kind of hurricanes that so devastated his state this year will be regular occurrences now. Such events will occur not once every ten years, but annually. That’s how climate change has affected his state. |
I recall how I was invited to speak there a few years ago as part of a weekend gathering of religious groups who wanted to address Climate Change in the state of Florida. One speaker, a scientist, showed a map of the state and demonstrated |
“THE RISKIEST Places to Live in the US as Our Climate Changes / Weathered: Earth’s Extremes.” PBS |
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1/3 of it will be under water in so many years and 2/3 in so many years more at the rate we were going. |
Another speaker informed us that the governor of the state at that time, now a member of the U.S. Senate, forbade all state workers to use the term “climate change” in any official correspondence. He belongs to that one party in America that wants to “drill, baby, drill” while refusing to talk about climate change. Now, in the second largest city in America, we have another climate emergency resulting not in devastating hurricanes but in devastating wildfires. It has been estimated that the fires raging on in LA will amount to $50 billion in damage. But of course, you cannot put a dollar figure on lives lost, homes and their mementos destroyed, and the landscape and beauty of a place burned to a crisp. |
Fires intensify as fierce winds continue unabated. TODAY | As one observer has commented, “this is not just a tragedy. It is a crime.” Why a crime? Because oil and fossil fuel companies are buying politicians annually, to |
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tune of about $800 billion, to subsidize the fossil fuel industries even though they know that their industry is largely responsible for ongoing climate change that is warming the Gulf of Mexico so profoundly that seas are rising and hurricanes multiplying. |
What is happening in LA is also due primarily to climate change which is due to fossil fuels. It has been proven that fossil fuel CEO’s have known this was coming for decades, just as cigarette manufacturers knew about the cancer cigarettes caused for decades. And were eventually prosecuted. Another observer, a fire ecologist named Morgan Tingley, posted this on Bluesky: The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time, how climate change is largely responsible for this. |
“We are devastatingly unprepared for the climate that fossil fuel greed is creating,” one youth-led Sunrise Movement wrote on social media. The fossil fuel corporations “choose to fight investments in |
Climate change activists all over the world want less reliance on fossil fuels. This sign, in Melbourne, says it all. Photo by Matt Hrkac on Flickr |
renewable energy, spread propaganda, and bribe politicians into supporting $757 billion in fossil fuel subsidies.” |
“It’s like Armageddon,” one LA resident said. “Everyone keeps saying ‘apocalyptic,’” said a CNN reporter. “But that doesn’t begin to cover it.”* It is not only corporations that hold responsibility; but also the politicians whom they easily buy. And the media that regularly spread
their denials. And SCOTUS for Citizens United that encourages such blatant corporate and political criminality. |
*Jake Johnson, “As Apocalyptic Fires Torch LA, Climate Campaigners Say ‘Big Oil Did This.'” Common Dreams, January 9, 2025 See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. And Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision For a New
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Banner image: Trump denying climate change. Image by Mike Finn on Flickr. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Are these human failings of denying the reality of climate change and continuing to make money on it, the exact opposite of creation spirituality? The exact opposite of what Jesus or any spiritual teacher would recommend? The antichrist at work therefore? Are spiritual warriors that fight for creation needed more than ever? |
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew
is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author,
The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the
term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity. For immediate access to Trump
& The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation
Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice. |
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Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to move beyond our broken systems–economic,
political, educational, and religious–discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, transforming them and in the process building a more sacred and just world. Incorporating the words of young activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a better world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a powerful, inspiring, and vital call to embodied awareness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and author of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods |
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The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages
The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father
Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder
of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. |
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Join Matthew Fox and cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme in a new 7-week live video course hosted by The Shift Network: “The 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality: Embracing Awe, Chaos, Creativity & Transformation With the Universe as Your Guide.” Tuesdays, December 3 –
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Join the Creation Spirituality Communities Education service as they host guest speaker Matthew Fox in an overview of Deep Ecumenism and its relevance today in the first class of a course, “Deep Ecumenism: Exploring Spiritual Identity” by Instructor Roxanne Whitelight. Matthew Fox’s lecture: Jan 15 - 4:00pm PT Course runs Wednesdays, January 15– February 19, 2025. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, co-authored with Rupert Sheldrake: The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet, in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, January 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. Creation Spirituality Conversations |
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