The Washington Post has Ideas on how to help save us from global boiling, by appropriating religious beliefs into their cult
Why reviving a 2,600-year-old spiritual practice made my life better
Every Friday around sunset, I close my laptop. For 24 hours, my work is done. No email. No news. No social media. If it’s work-related, it waits.
What I try to do is — nothing at all. Or, rather, I spend time with people I love, usually outdoors. I swim or surf. I share a meal with friends and family. Sometimes, I just lie on my back in the park enjoying the sun.
It has rekindled a sense of joy I last felt when I was a kid with nothing to do, and gratitude for whatever miraculous series of events led me here to this moment.
For years, this one-day pause seemed untenable. For many, it’s virtually impossible to set aside an entire day for rest free from responsibilities to work and family.
Michael J. Coren literally spends a bit of time every week writing climate cult opinion pieces for the Washington Post. That’s it. And, if he wants to do nothing, have at it. However, climate cultists are very fond of telling Other People what to do.
In 2019, Schorsch founded the Green Sabbath Project to incite a “mass movement to observe a weekly day of rest” for the secular and religious alike. This is not a spa day, but a modern version of what the ancients practiced: avoiding work in factories and offices, or even in front of our laptops; opting out of driving or flying, or using engines of any kind for the day; putting off shopping; preparing food in advance; and ceasing incessant doing.
The immediate effect among millions of people, he calculates, could dial back emissions for at least one day a week with no new technology or spending. But the practice of doing nothing, he argues, can make people change the way they live year-round, by appealing to an ancient human ritual, rather than reason or even religion. (snip)
Schorsch is now hoping to find more communities willing to undertake this radical experiment in time together. “Ultimately, as a society, we’re going to need to have ecological practices,” he says. “It’s not enough to impose laws. Do we solve [climate change] through technocratic solutions and policy, or do we solve it through new cultural, even spiritual approaches? One without the other is not going to be enough.”
But, will this happen without Governmental Force? He tried to compare it to yoga, but, it seems more people are interested in wearing yoga pants to show their ass then actually doing yoga. Many are recommending that lots and lots of blue laws are brought back to keep people from being able to do anything on that one day a week.
Seriously, why can’t these people just mind their own business and stop trying to force their beliefs on everyone else?
Read: Who’s Up For A “Green Sabbath”? »