A Consultation
In-person in July and/or 5 newsletters Mar-July
Friday, July 26, 2024
Catholic University
Washington, DC
Our initiating hosts, John Elwood and Lowell Bliss, are pictured here at Crawford Lake, near Milton, ON, the proposed “golden spike” for the New Future (erstwhilely) known as the Anthropocene (August 2024). Read here the Introduction to Old and New Futures, the explanatory correspondence that set our Consultation in motion.
CONSULTATION PREMISE #1: The New Future will experience excruciating collapses, catastrophes, and/or extinctions for which our faith in current efforts at activism, sustainability, and/or technological innovation is unfounded. It is neither pessimism nor doomism to admit this.
By Lowell Bliss (released March 6, 2024)
“It is still not too late to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.”
I am an optimist by nature, but this rallying cry of so many of my colleagues has lost all meaning for me. The problem is how two of the words—worst and late—are so subjectively imprecise but they masquerade as syntactically definitive. The word worst is a superlative adjective, and so, of course!, it’s not too late to avoid the worst-est. Read More.
Our Consultation is grateful to the American Scientific Affiliation for administrative and venue support. Consider adding on the three days of ASA’s wonderful conference for Christians in Science. Click here.