³“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for they will be least culpable (and least protected) as the climate changes.
⁴Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will not be in denial.
⁵Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit an earth that will be very different from the one their parents inherited.
⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will have plenty of opportunity to act.
⁷Blessed are the merciful,
for they changed their lifestyles a long time ago.
⁸Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God even in those who continue to pollute.
⁹Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called The Ones Who Understand.
¹⁰Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for their children will know that they tried to change things.”

I have just seen Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, and I just need to blog to get some of the anger out of my system.

I walked out of it thinking of nothing so much as the lynching that (ex-President) Najibullah received at the hands of the Taliban when they took Kabul. Eight months after it happened, I was driven past the traffic post in down-town Kabul from which his body hung for many days as a lesson to unpopular presidents.

I have pledged to be a peacemaker, so I will not lead a lynching. Peace, like love, needs to be made and lived and breathed with every breath. But as I walked out of that theater, and I thought of the damage to our planet that our government seems to be encouraging I couldn’t help thinking about ex-Politicians who had found themselves in the hands of a public who cared about things other than the short-term, economy-centred idols that were used to generate fear and votes.

I’m interested to hear how others have found the movie and what you think we could achieve together.