Posts Tagged ‘blessed unrest’

Short Response to Viewing 11th Hour at Alamo Last Night

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I think that after seeing movies about our worsening environmental condition we, as individuals, feel helpless. (A couple of the conversations I had following the movie reaffirmed that this is true.) However, I feel it really is a reawakening. We can sit in the theater and think, “What difference can I make by myself?” or we can look around at the hundred other people in the chairs around us and say, “We are all here tonight because we care about the environment, and, now, what is the next step we can take collectively?” As Paul Hawken put it in his book Blessed Unrest, we are the immunity that can heal this disaster. We might start small as just a few antibodies here and there, but when we join forces we really stand a chance at making change.