<\/a>Reconceive Environment and Sustainability.<\/strong> Martin Luther King Jr. taught us, by word and example, that any movement \u2014 any culture \u2014will fail if it cannot paint a picture of a world that people will want to go to. As others have said, his speech was not called \u201cI Have a Nightmare.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

For decades, our culture has struggled with two addictions, to oil and to despair. It\u2019s pretty clear by now that we can\u2019t kick one of those habits without kicking the other. Yet, for many Americans, perhaps most of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d \u201cMad Max\u201d or Cormac McCarthy\u2019s \u201cThe Road\u201d: a post-apocalyptic <\/a>dystopia stripped of nature. We seem drawn to that flame.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a dangerous fixation. Think how children and young people must feel today, growing up in a time when so many adults seem to accept, with a shrug, only darkness ahead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162,123,154,159,124],"tags":[323,327,136,328,324,5,332,12,333,329,326,334,335,336,13,93,331,325,330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}