CC sangha talk
CC = Climate change. And 'sangha' is the Placerville Vipassana Buddhist group I'm part of. Next week I'm giving a talk on corrective actions for climate change. I've been lamenting about this for weeks now. It's bringing up a whole bunch of contradictory feelings, dukkha, conundrums, and a reluctance to speak my truth. After a long talk with our sangha leader, I've been led to highlight a few things. But first let me rant a little: 2005 was a pivotal year for me and it turned me away from popular views & opinions and led me to question most of our pop media's reporting on environmental, ecological and supposed 'solutions'. I had taken my proceeds of a home sale, traveled the world (Asia, Everest, Europe, etc) l ooking for answers to unasked questions like: 'is it really that bad? are we all f***ed?, why not just party like it's 1999 ? .... And then came the 2005 seminal paper 'the death of environm...