At the moment, I am feeling a bit of fury against a recent Grist guest, Eric Mann, who self-righteously accuses us of being privileged and air-headed.  Well, that was an earlier impression that he had; hopefully he has evolved.  Hopefully as well, he and others like him will appreciate the beauty and worth of so self-sacrificing an endeavour as Orion.

Two sets of images impress me especially: the Filipino developers, setting alight kerosene-dipped rats and cats and dogs, and sending them, in unimaginable horror, to start a conflagration in Manila slums; and the attempts to go for water, from disgusting sources of water.  Disgusting, unimaginable.  There we are.

We may indeed be privileged, we white environmentalists, but at least we recognize that fact.  And we try to do something, through politics, through NGOs, through prayer, to tell the world that God wants better for all of us.

And thank God Eric Mann is not God:  We white privileged air-headed fluff-headed children (how nice to be a child again!) surely count for something in God's all-loving reckoning.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.