- Undrinkable water poisoned by fracking. (Sorrow!)
- Asthma: Lungs suffering from coal dust and gasoline fumes. (Sorrow!)
- Suffering and death for fish, birds, vegetation, and human beings from the oil upheaval in the Gulf of Mexico. (Sorrow!)
- Smashed mountains and dead coal-miners in the lovely hills of West Virginia. (Sorrow!)
- Unheard-of droughts in Africa, setting off hunger, starvation, civil wars and genocide. (Sorrow!)
- Drought in Russia, setting off peat-bog fires and scarcity of wheat. (Sorrow!)
- Summer-long intense heat wave in Europe, killing thousands of elders. (Sorrow!)
- Unheard-of floods in Pakistan, putting one-fifth of the country under water. (Sorrow!)
- Superstorm Sandy, killing hundreds in Haiti and America. (Sorrow!)
- Years of drought and fires in Australia. (Sorrow!)
- Parched corn fields and dead crops in the US corn-belt. (Sorrow!)
TEN HEALINGS
- Creating organic farms in countrysides and cities. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Wind-based energy: Purchasing home & company electric power from wind-based suppliers. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Hybrid or electric cars. Families buy them; convince cities, government agencies, & businesses to switch their auto fleets. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Use public transportation. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Family & congregational education/ action to heal the Earth: At Bat/Bar Mitzvah time and teen-age baptisms/ confirmations, "turning hearts of children and parents to each other, lest the Earth be utterly destroyed" (Quote from last passage of Malachi, last of the classical Hebrew Prophets). (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Vigils, picketing, civil disobedience at sites of mountain destruction by coal companies. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Prevent the Tar Sands Pipeline. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- End fracking: Insist on moratoriums or prohibitions. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Divestment by colleges, pension funds, religious communities, etc from investment in fossil-fuel companies, shifting investment to renewable, sustainable energy. (L'chayyim, To life!)
- Carbon pricing: Insisting that Members of Congress put prices on carbon-fuel production and pay dividends from the incoming fees to American families. (L'chayyim, To life!)
https://theshalomcenter.org/
Feel free to use it either as a whole this coming week -- or choosing passages from it to add to your own Seder.
Thanks!
Blessings of life, liberation, and healing for us all and for our Mother Earth, this Passover and Holy Week!
--Arthur
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