Environmental and Social Justice Will Be Hard To Achieve in a Sick, Sadistic World

Though I don’t normally cover the news on extreme sports, I do need to mention that NBC took Olympic gold last night in the Extreme Cruelty event, ascending to the top of the podium for their talk on camera with men’s skiing “Super-G” bronze medal winner, American Bode Miller.  The interviewer forced Miller to talk about his reactions to the tragic death of his brother, obviously a very painful subject to him, with not just one question on the subject, but three – until Miller, eventually in tears, was rendered incapable of speaking further. 

The relevance to environmental justice?  The migration to a sustainable way of life here on Earth can happen only in the presence of people who honestly care about one another, and demonstrate that in their actions.  When this basic compassion is missing, all is lost.