Dear Nicloe and Arlene, and ecofem To really follow through on the ecofeminist agenda for nature and achieve social justice is going to take some committed support - in loving partnership - woman and man, or the deal won't heal in wholeness - 'holiness'. I have set out in "The Black Book of Many Colours" the requital agenda. It is certainly not one that trans-national corporations or first-world capitalist governments are going to like, but there is a root question of human love and compassion - feeding the hungry, providing free access to health and education and liberating women world-wide from the shackles of social, religious, political, educational and particularly reproductive confinement. This will in turn save millions upon millions of species - biodiversity renewed. This is perfectly achievable, provided we all stop bickering about divisive issues and embrace together with one heart the real social redemption and reconciliation - the change of heart - ending brokenheartedness. That will form a cyclonic low-pressure centre, towards which everything and everone will converge because our incarnational angst will be released in true love. I say it is irreversible because the way I have stated it in "The Black Book of Many Colours" will create a cumulative force of reckoning for justice by the very words it contains having been pronounced - that is the nature of the learning experience and particularly the unique nature of the work. Learning is itself an irreversible process, like chaos and non-equilibrium thermodynamics - Aha! - Eureka! is irreversible - Schrodinger's cat is out of the bag. I love and value Nicole, whatever her sharp corners, and utterly narcissistic and elitist and crudely jingoistic chauvanism for anything black or fourth world because underlying this raw prejudice is a verdant desire for such justice. If we can make it together, the whole world might not be too much of a problem after all, but time is very short. But if we and ecofem continue down the road of bickering, one species will continue to disappear off the face of the earth every twelve minutes until we all sit up in horror and begin the ten million year wake for biodiversity. We really need to get moving. love, Chris.
