The Good Dirt with Byron Smith
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We're back! After a summer hiatus that lasted a little longer than expected, Byron Smith talks with Josh Dowton, associate pastor at Northside Baptist Church, New Testament scholar and permaculturist.
Episode Outline
I. What's the big idea?
The epistemic priority of the oppressed is a fancy way of saying that in seeking to understand any situation of conflict, we ought to listen first and most carefully to the weaker party, because their voice is more easily dismissed, undermined or sidelined.
An opinion piece giving an overview of some of those who rushed to defend George Pell after his conviction for crimes of sexual violence against teenagers: The inconsistencies of George Pell's defenders just display their power.
II. What's going on?
Story #1: 26th January, #changethedate vs #changethenation vs #changetheheart
Why I no longer support #changethedate
#Changetheheart prayer services for 2019
The Killing Times (new Guardian series)
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Story #2: Developments in the coal industry
Glencore moves to cap global coal output after investor pressure on climate change
Court rules out Hunter Valley coalmine on climate change grounds
Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy
The Green New Deal is here, and everyone has something to say about it
Story #3: School Strike for Climate
Map of over 1,800 global climate strike events
Young climate strikers can win their fight. We must all help (George Monbiot)
Greta Thunberg's speech to the UN at COP24
MPs debate climate after school strike - but only a handful turn up (UK)
Story #4: Disappearing insects
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
Decline in bogong moth numbers could have catastrophic effects in the Australian Alps
III. What do we do?
School strike for climate (Australian events)
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf
The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden grow by Doug Purdie
Thu 28th March PEACEtalks at Paddington Anglican: Heads in the Sand: Australian climate politics and the church with Byron Smith
Sat 30th March at Small Boat, Big Sea in Fairlight
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PS There is one reference towards the end to a "previous episode" with Dr Miriam Pepper discussing the Murray Darling river system. That was a mistake - Miriam will appear in the next episode (#5)! Stay tuned...
11. Brooke Prentis: political vs partisan, bushfire smoke, burning rainforests, humpback recovery, cashless welfare cards, civil liberties narrowing, persecution of Uyghurs
10. Adam Wood: intergenerational injustice, bushfires and coal in NSW, electric vehicles in Australia, climate strike
9. Mick Pope: Anthropocene, 11,000 scientists, bad climate ancestors, profiting from destruction, and secondary boycotts
8. David Clough: humans and other animals, live export, Australia's extinction crisis, climate emergency, role of faith communities
7. Jason John: identity protective cognition, existential risks, election analysis, Adani update, islander rights
6. Ben Thurley: the Overton window, Coalition budget priorities, climate policies compared, how change happens
5. Miriam Pepper: the Murray-Darling river basin - a case study in ecology, history and politics
3. Lisa Sharon Harper: Core spiritual lies, colonialism and race, Freedom Road, Pacific climate neighbourliness, nonviolent civil disobedience
2. Brooke Prentis: just world belief, Aboriginal deaths in custody, climate neighbourliness, carbon and nutrition, adulterated honey
1. Scott Sanders: common grace, air pollution, biodiversity loss and loneliness
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