{"id":2840,"date":"2024-03-31T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:39:53","slug":"easter-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/easter-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Easter is a time of reflection on man&#8217;s relationship to God. It should also be a time of reflection on man&#8217;s relationship to nature \u2026and our changing climate. The news from Antarctica is not good. In fact, it is <em>terrifying<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Antarctica-Earths-largest-refrigerator-is-defrosting-The-Economist.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Antarctica-Earths-largest-refrigerator-is-defrosting-The-Economist.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8b5359a7-ac4f-4c44-b417-ef016816ef93\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Antarctica-Earths-largest-refrigerator-is-defrosting-The-Economist.pdf\">Antarctica-Earths-largest-refrigerator-is-defrosting-The-Economist<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Antarctica-Earths-largest-refrigerator-is-defrosting-The-Economist.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8b5359a7-ac4f-4c44-b417-ef016816ef93\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I asked my friend and neighbor, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gustave_Speth\" title=\"\">Gus Speth<\/a><\/strong>, if I could use one of his poems this Easter as complement to the news from Antarctica. A Rhodes Scholar and clerk for legendary Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Gus is a lifelong champion of the environment. He was Jimmy Carter&#8217;s Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in the White House, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and World Resources Institute, Dean of the Yale School of Environmental Studies, and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, who is often referred to as the third most senior official within the UN System, after the political appointees (Secretary General and Deputy Secretary). Gus is the author of many books of law, policy and the environment. In his retirement he has taken to poetry (publishing 5 volumes) to convey his reflections of 60+ years of public service and pleas to all of us to celebrate and care for our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong><em>Happy Easter!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bread and Roses<\/span><\/strong> [by Gus Speth]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>When the big sea has stopped rising<br>and the maps we\u2019re through revising<br>and I can think of storms as friends,<br>I\u2019ll go down to the beach again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I\u2019ll stand still there in that bright surf<br>and sing a song to this dear Earth.<br>I\u2019ll sing for climate change to end.<br>I\u2019ll sing tears for where we have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll sing to things that we have learned &#8211;<br>the fossils we should not have burned<br>releasing the power of former suns,<br>bringing losses that cannot be undone.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sad losses the children will inherit.<br>Species gone without much credit,<br>thanks to the piles of money earned<br>and all the corners left unturned.<br>I\u2019ll sing to anger rising still.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our leaders let firms do their will.<br>The people did assert control<br>but not before the barons stole.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our job is now to make the best,<br>finding purpose in what is left.<br>It is a joy to live to fight<br>and on that beach to fly two kites.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Gus-Speth.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Gus-Speth.jpg 635w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Gus-Speth-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is a time of reflection on man&#8217;s relationship to God. It should also be a time of reflection on man&#8217;s relationship to nature \u2026and our changing climate. The news from Antarctica is not good. In fact, it is terrifying. I asked my friend and neighbor, Gus Speth, if I could use one of his<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/easter-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Easter 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}