{"id":412,"date":"2006-01-13T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=412"},"modified":"2006-01-13T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T09:31:11","slug":"11006-to-11306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"1\/10\/06 to 1\/13\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recap:<\/strong> We have spent the week at the Koinonia Community in Southwest Georgia. It is a group of Christians living in intentional community on a pecan farm here. They are trying to model how the early Christians were inspired to live… For us, it has been a whirlwind of experiences and stimulating thought. Koinonia community member Tom Monaham showed me the tape of a lecture by author Noam Chomsky, who writes extensively on American foreign policy. In a lecture at Stanford University, Chomsky said America often blocks the “democratization” of other countries who have dictators (no matter how ruthless), if that dictator is friendly to American interersts — especially in respect to access to oil reserves… I then gave a talk to Koinonia members and some people who were here from Manchester College’s (in Indiana) Peace Studies Program. At one point in the talk, I said many in this country complain about President Bush’s decision not to sign the Kyoto Protocol to help curb greenhouse gasses in this country. But I wondered how many of those complaining had made personal lifestyle choices to, in effect, create “Kyoto Protocol Home Zones.” That is, how many of these same people are cutting back significantly on their driving, air conditioning, heating, length of showers? (All these contribute to the burning of fossil fuels — a lot of that being oil — that cause global warming.) And for that matter, how many people have considered house sharing in order to share items (often made by buring fossil fuels), share heated air, and the like? The point:<\/strong> By the average person in the U.S. continuing on in our gluttonous energy ways in the U.S., not only are we contributing tremendously to environmental degradation; but we are also contributing tremendously to the continuation of human rights violations in the countries with the cruel dictators who are friendly to U.S. oil (and other natural resource) interests. Note: <\/strong> Many a theologian would say foreign human rights violations caused, ultimately, by our gluttonous lifestyles here would simply be considered: “unintended consequences.” And they would assign little, if any, spiritual culpability. Yet if someone has ‘connected the international dots’ for us, and we’ve learned that these are, in fact, some of the consequences…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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