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Jon Swales
Sep 22, 20234 min read
Collapse & Carbon Budgets
A few thoughts. This is an evolving post, a draft. "Humanity faces a difficult truth: climate change is making our planet uninhabitable,"...
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Jon Swales
Sep 18, 20235 min read
Increasing Flights at Leeds Bradford Airport
My local airport is Leeds Bradford. I've used the airport several times for holidays. I love to travel, with previous trips to Thailand...
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Jon Swales
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Fossil Fuel Corporations & Mythical Beasts
Human beings are myth-making creatures. These myths—deep stories, collective fictions—are reinforced through institutions and cultural...
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Jon Swales
Sep 4, 20232 min read
Climate Breakdown & Exceptionalism
A few thoughts.... We are not the masters of the universe, nor even the masters of nature. Our collective behavior, from the industrial...
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Jon Swales
Sep 2, 20231 min read
Do Not Run: A Poem for Missional Realism
Do not run from concrete reality, Into a world of romanticised abstractions. Take courage, The truth at times will hurt. Do not...
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Jon Swales
Aug 31, 20232 min read
Collapse & the New Humanity
Industrial capitalist society, despite the virtual silence of mainstream media, is in a death spiral towards collapse. Antonio...
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Jon Swales
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Climate Justice: Discipleship- Reevaluating What we Prize (Video)
This video is part of a larger teaching series called 'Climate Justice: Following Jesus in a World of Climate Breakdown.
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Jon Swales
Aug 30, 20230 min read
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Jon Swales
Aug 26, 20234 min read
Cruciform Adaptation
A few thoughts… in love and for love. We live within the story of climate breakdown and in a previous post we explored that it is highly...
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Jon Swales
Aug 24, 20239 min read
An Open Letter to the Church: Love in a World of Climate Breakdown
Dear Brothers & Sisters Thank you for taking the time to read this post. The sobering truth is that our lives are unfolding in the...
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Jon Swales
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Rivers: A Prayer for the Climate & Ecological Emergency
Father of Creation, The first and the last, You created a world of wonder, Full of possibility and potential, You declared it to be good....
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