User:John L. Clark

Some questions for conversation

 * What story do you tell and live by that gives life meaning, and what is that meaning?
 * Do you think that the story you tell about how the world works and where it is going is both convincing and good? Are you dissatisfied with that story for some reason?

Items for elaboration

 * The collapse of civilization (or, more generally, imposing limits on it) does not imply the end of its injustices
 * Growth and treating energy as a zero-sum game
 * Naively pursuing (so-called) renewable energy sources
 * A carbon tax and increasing use of wood
 * Church/religion: belonging and meaning
 * Civilization and idolatry
 * Sin and taboos
 * "A brief history of belief"
 * Researching the history of the idea of liberalism

Letters I might write

 * To Bill McKibben, asking him if 350.org strategy is radical enough
 * To Naomi Klein, asking her the same thing
 * To Pope Francis, asking him to more concretely link his teaching on economic, social, and environmental justice

Reading queue

 * http://dgrnewsservice.org/2014/02/08/susan-hyatt-michael-carter-restoring-sanity-part-1-an-inhuman-system/
 * http://makezine.com/magazine/make-37/patdelany/