Thursday, October 27, 2016

Ten commandments to avoid extinction

Michael Dowd addresses these in the video below (and much more). See this link for the other two video in the series. The ten are:

40:35 Reality’s Rules: Ten Commandments to Avoid Extinction (full version)
41:18 #1 – Reality / God
41:55 #2 – Evidence / Scripture
42:35 #3 – Big History / Shared sacred story/creation myth
43:14 #4 – Ecology / Theology
43:57 #5 – Godde-centered (God’s Nature honoring) measures of progress, success
44:50 #6 – Stop allowing the free or subsidized polluting of the commons
45:36 #7 – Stop using renewable resources faster than they can be replenished
46:32 #8 – Stop using non-renewable resources in ways that harm or rob the future
47:23 #9 – Stop exploring for coal, oil, and natural gas; leave most of it in the ground
48:02 #10 – Stop prioritizing the wants of the wealthy over the needs of the poor

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