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.

Original post: April 21, 2011. Updated: Jan. 3, 2012

"What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution."
~ Tim DeChristopher, letter from prison on Day 28 of a 2-year sentence