A "Green Sabbath" & Climate Lockdowns/Gross Green Austerity

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"Another Luce Foundation program which seeks to influence religion is the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Program. Among the goals of this program are to foster interreligious dialogue and prepare future American Christian leaders for “America’s growing religious diversity.” Barbara Rossing, professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, used the Luce fellowship to conduct research on the relationship between global warming and current religious notions of the Apocalypse. Luce Theology Fellow Douglas Burton-Christie’s Contemplative Ecology project applied the teachings of early Christian monastic traditions to modern ecological problems. This paragraph from a Luce Foundation paper celebrating 75 years of its influence is very revealing:

“One distinguishing component of the Luce theology fellowships is the requirement that Fellows make their scholarship accessible to broader audiences. This focus on dissemination has yielded impressive results. Fellows have produced more than one hundred books to date, and many have published articles in scholarly journals, church publications and national magazines. Fellows have also become important voices in the media—writing blogs and giving radio and television interviews that provide a scholarly religious perspective on a range of pressing contemporary issues.” Source
 
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Speaking of things not moving fast enough...
www.telegraph.co.uk

Seize property to build wind and solar farms, says JP Morgan chief

Green projects must be fast-tracked to meet net zero targets
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

"The chief executive of JP Morgan has suggested that governments should seize private land to build wind and solar farms in order to meet net zero targets.

Jamie Dimon, the longstanding boss of the Wall Street titan who donates to the Democratic Party, said green energy projects must be fast-tracked as the window for averting the most costly impacts of global climate change is closing.

In his annual shareholder letter, Mr Dimon said: “Permitting reforms are desperately needed to allow investment to be done in any kind of timely way.

“We may even need to evoke eminent domain – we simply are not getting the adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind and pipeline initiatives.”

Eminent domain is when a government or state agency carries out a compulsory purchase of private property for public use and compensates the asset holder.

The proposal is unusual, especially coming from the longest-serving chief executive of a Wall Street bank, and could stir controversy as states in the US seek to crackdown on seizure orders.

In Iowa, state legislators on Monday passed a bill that aims to protect private property owners from eminent domain use by carbon pipeline companies.

Mr Dimon’s comments also come as tensions between investors grow about how to tackle climate change.

In December, Vanguard, the world’s second largest asset manager, pulled out of Mark Carney’s global climate change alliance, saying the group’s full-blooded commitment to tackling climate change resulted “in confusion about the views of individual investment firms”.
 
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