Fracking the Peace will be shown in the Lakeview Room at Linnaea at 7 pm.
This movie, produced by Stand Earth, lasts 35 minutes, discussion to follow.
Popcorn!

Why is it meaningful to watch a movie about a hard reality?

We live in relative proximity to the powers that be, in comparison to those who experience the worst human/climate impacts imposed by our culture. The women and children of the global south, the ancient yet diminishing lineages of animals and plants, they don’t get to vote for or against governments that subsidize fossil fuel extraction. We might tell the government that our "quality of life" includes a just transition which will give our lives a better meaning with regard to these “others.” We have ideas about how this could be done.

Here are some words about meaning and connectedness, by Phillip Pullman (he wrote the Dark Materials/Golden Compass series):

[P]art of the sense of wider meaningfulness that we need ... comes from seeing that we have a connection with nature and the universe around us, with everything that is not human as well. We can see this real world, our world, as a place of infinite delight, so intensely beautiful and intoxicating that if we saw it clearly then we would want nothing more, ever. We would know that this earth is our true home, and no where else. That intensity of feeling, that perception of the connectedness of things, is not a delusion. It’s true. The world is really like that.

I think that while believing that the school of morals is probably doomed, we should act as if it weren’t. We should act as if the universe were listening to us and responding; we should act as if life were going to win.