{"id":61,"date":"2009-11-21T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malemuk.wordpress.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2015-01-04T04:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T04:33:57","slug":"the-power-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/the-power-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Living on Earth of 6 November 2009, Jeff Young had an interesting piece on the power of religious communities in inspiring people to fight environmental problems. What I found the most interesting was the analysis that one crucial point is missing from all the scientific talk: hope. The interviewee, Martin Palmer, used the comparison with fasting in order to stress the power of hope: as long as you promise a feast, you can get people to fast.<\/p>\n

As far as I could hear, he didn’t concretely tell how that would transpose to climate change but I certainly agree that we usually hear either gloomy or careless point of views. I guess we, who try our best at preserving the environment, have some <\/em>sort of hope (otherwise we would give up). Many of the people I talk to, however, seem to have lost hope. It might be unless to convince them of anything unless we restore that hope first.<\/p>\n

Link to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

Link to Living on Earth<\/a><\/p>\n

There may be a prayer for climate change prevention. Major world religious leaders and conservation organizations recently gathered in Windsor, England for the Many Heavens, One Earth conference to advance the fight against climate change. Host Jeff Young speaks with Martin Palmer, Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, about why these initiatives might have a greater impact on stewardship than scientific or political efforts. (12:00)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Living on Earth of 6 November 2009, Jeff Young had an interesting piece on the power of religious communities in inspiring people to fight environmental problems. What I found the most interesting was the analysis that one crucial point is missing from all the scientific talk: hope. The interviewee, Martin Palmer, used the comparison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3082,"url":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/michael-parenti-conspiracy-and-class-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":0},"title":"Michael Parenti - Conspiracy AND class power","date":"August 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"@youtube{, topic = {ruling class, conspiration}, url = {https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jsua0m6GreY}, author = {Michael Parenti}, title = {Conspiracy AND class power}, institution = {Berkeley, CA}, year = {1993}, abstract = {This is an in-depth analysis of the modern state and the exercise of power behind the scenes. The speech is also an\u2026","rel":"nofollow","context":"In \"Politics and Society\"","img":{"src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/significant-figures\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":1},"title":"Significant figures","date":"December 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"John Denker argues that it is insane to use significant figures. Instead one should follow these guidelines: Keep all the original data. Do not round off the original data. In the introductory class, the following \u201chouse rules\u201d apply: Basic 3-digit rule: For a number in scientific notation, the rule is\u2026","rel":"nofollow","context":"In \"Science\"","img":{"src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2809,"url":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/living-in-truth\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":2},"title":"Living in truth","date":"June 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ONzLgOHD6uw\u00a0at 57'14\" Chris Hedges: \"As Hannah Arendt wrote in the Origins of Totalitarianism, the only morally reliable people are not those who say this is wrong or this should not be done but those who say I can't. They know that, as Emmanuel Kant wrote, if justice perishes, human life\u2026","rel":"nofollow","context":"In \"Politics and Society\"","img":{"src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}