The Ecology of the Incarnation

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Our collective thinking is just not where it needs to be yet. Very well intentioned, especially in the more green Euro crowds. But too much pop-culture, chic-eco consciousness involved in many of these campaigns--CO2 reduction, GMOs, Kyoto.

Its one thing for the extremely well off, who don't have to focus on national security issues (thanks to the "evil" American empire), to spend their money in ways with which I may not totally jive.

But I get very upset and nervous when individuals, communities, and interest groups seek to force rich governments to impose such thinking on the poor around the world. See: Zimmerman on the Green Wing of the Nazi Party

That criticism is of the hard core eco-crowd, which obviously most well-meaning individuals in green Euro groups are not. But the specter of Empire, of trans-national forms of governance that seek to limit modernization, republican forms of government (classical liberalism), free expresion, economic choice, political-cultural debate, and consutltative democratic procedures, always lies in the shadows of all this.

We don't have a political voice for being neither naively pro-industrial (see America) or eco-green (as the movement currently exists), but seriously desiring both human development and biospheric flowering. There are individual voices of truth and sanity (Amory Lovins, Bjorn Lomborg, William McDonough).

That would be the greatest gift, I feel, for our world on this blessed Christmas.

O Little Town of Bethlehem,
How Still we See Thee Lie,
Above They Deep and Dreamless Sleep,
The Silent Stars go By,
Yet in thy Dark Streets Shines the Everlasting Light,
The Hopes and Fears of All Men's Years are Met in Thee Tonight.
O Little Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to Us We Pray,
Cast Out our Sin and Enter In,
Be Born in Us Today.

AMEN.