It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Mother Davis looks at her calendar, opens a window, and remembers,In the heat of a presidential campaign and a growing anti-war movement, we can easily forget that the heat is rising in other areas too. We're facing another summer of extreme weather very soon. Last year, tens of thousands of people died as a direct result of climate change - remember those 15-20 thousand people who died of heat exposure in Europe? Time is not on our side with global climate change, but we're lucky that the Environmental Defense Fund has organized a practical campaign to start to undo climate change - centered at UndoIt.org. Right now, the Undo It campaign is focused on the Climate Stewardship Act, which will once again be voted on in the Senate. This is the only legislation to address climate change that has come along in years, and it's not perfect or complete, but at least it's a start. I urge you to visit UndoIt.org, to find out more about the threats of climate change, and to find out what you can do to help stop it. Fanning herself with her Sierra Magazine, Mother Davis Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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