Search Results: consumerism
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 January 2010
3 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect. September 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- John Smith
- 10 December 2009
1 Comment
Much can be achieved in cooperation with friends who don't necessarilyshare the same faith or any faith at all. If you're homeless, who careswhether an atheist, a Christian or a Buddhist provides shelter?
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Stephen Wright
- 30 September 2009
6 Comments
We are terrible at caring for the planet because we are terrible at caring for each other. And we are lousy at caring for each other because we don't seem to have any idea of where the roots of human emotional sustenance lie. We might begin to look at our obsessive love of money and power.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 04 September 2009
20 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 May 2009
15 Comments
An American priest reportedly claimed that swine flu was God's punishment for sin. The idea that God might use natural disasters to punish people is repugnant. But at first glance the Scriptures do seem to represent God as doing just that.
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RELIGION
- Sarah Kanowski
- 22 December 2008
3 Comments
Silent breakfast in a still-dark zendo, mist
rising on the mountains, has been replaced by a scramble against the
clock, one eye on the newspaper, one hand reaching for
the Weet Bix, our toddler clambering, garbage trucks
screeching outside.
How to find silence here?
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ECONOMICS
- Margaret Rice
- 16 December 2008
3 Comments
This time of year is marked by a fraught pre-Christmas anxiety, exacerbated this year by the economic crisis. My daughter Rachel lost her part-time job last week.
Her loss is slight compared to her employer's, a young mother who
works in the finance industry.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 05 November 2008
13 Comments
After
America's worst president, Obama may prove its greatest.
Australians will have reason to celebrate his likely victory, although Obama has no
reason to be impressed by Australia.
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AUSTRALIA
- Alexandra Collier
- 31 October 2008
1 Comment
In Brooklyn, politics and Halloween overlap. On one house, a 'Vote McCain'
sign abuts another, declaring, 'Haunted House'. As the West Village prepares for its annual parade, the homeless sit in a curve, supplicating to the wealthy.
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RELIGION
- Anne Schmid
- 09 October 2008
6 Comments
The market crash was driven by fear as much as greed. Greed results from the gap between rich and poor, which leads everyone to feel they are holding on to
their way of life by a thread. A truly just economy would be a stable economy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 July 2008
1 Comment
Cult filmmaker Romero fears that new media has, rather than democratising the news, led to increased
tribalism that is divisive rather than unifying. He articulates these fears in his latest high-concept zombie film, Diary of the Dead.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 31 March 2008
3 Comments
Unchecked acquisition and possession of material objects can destroy lives and relationships. Hoarders point to a deeply ingrained pathology in which each of us
is starting to value things more than people.
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