Betrayal will be a major theme for ecoSanity in 2012.

The brief excerpt below, from What love looks like: An interview with Tim DeChristopher by Terry Tempest Williams, Orion Magazine, spoke to our belief that the full, hard truth about the EMERGENCY of the climate crisis -- no matter how bad the news may be -- must be told, and most often isn't, even by many of the lead scientists and environmental organizations we trust to keep us informed.

While grief and despair may result in periods of paralysis, DeChristopher considers them to be essential phases in the enlightenment process because they can lead to the outrage and compassion necessary to move us beyond fears about what we could lose, or the supposed need for 'hope', and compel us to take action based on our moral beliefs about what's right, how we should behave and what we should stand for.

Many other points are made in the full version of the interview before and after the segment below, some of which we -- and you -- may agree with / relate to more than others, but several thoughtful insights, regardless.

Guest post by Julie Johnston, Greenhearted.org, Transformative Education for Sustainability, Greenheartedblog, first posted, June 8, 2009 -- Updated Dec. 1, 2011.
(Video above, final note and links below added by ecoSanity.)

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When the situation is a frightening one...

Hasn't it seemed just a bit counterintuitive that so many environmental groups and activists have kept saying, "We can't scare the public"?

We are facing the most terrifying possibility ever, and yet they insist we shouldn't spread "doom and gloom." Hey, dooming the future is a gloomy prospect!

But here is a voice of reason - from a respected author and commentator no less (mine would never be called a "voice of reason" as I am all for heart, soul, spirit, intuition, emotions, feelings, gut reactions, and mother's instincts - just to balance out all the reason in the world!).

Guest post by Julie Johnston, Greenhearted.org, Transformative Education for Sustainability, Greenheartedblog, first posted, June 8, 2009 -- Updated Dec. 1, 2011.
(Video above, final note and links below added by ecoSanity.)

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When the situation is a frightening one...

Hasn't it seemed just a bit counterintuitive that so many environmental groups and activists have kept saying, "We can't scare the public"?

We are facing the most terrifying possibility ever, and yet they insist we shouldn't spread "doom and gloom." Hey, dooming the future is a gloomy prospect!

But here is a voice of reason - from a respected author and commentator no less (mine would never be called a "voice of reason" as I am all for heart, soul, spirit, intuition, emotions, feelings, gut reactions, and mother's instincts - just to balance out all the reason in the world!).