{"id":179,"date":"2021-02-02T22:32:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:33:57","slug":"traveling-ministry-on-climate-crisis-justice-and-the-growth-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/current-work\/traveling-ministry-on-climate-crisis-justice-and-the-growth-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Ministry on Climate Crisis, Justice, and the Growth Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Olshevski and Ed Dreby are traveling (virtually right now) to Monthly Meetings to present their traveling ministry on the climate crisis, justice and the growth dilemma.\u00a0 Among the many daunting and dangerous crises facing our nation,\u00a0 the accelerating concentration of wealth, institutional racism, climate disruption, and population growth are of great concert. \u00a0 They\u2019re \u00a0 all inter-related, and perpetuated by a financial system that evolved to support economic growth.\u00a0 The current financial system, and thus our economy, must keep growing to keep going, in spite of all the conflicts that the human enterprise has created with our ecological and societal realities.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists working in several fields have shown that new technologies, along with the deregulation of the financial system that began in the 1980s have had a major role in our nation\u2019s inability to deal with these dangerous crises.<\/p>\n<p>At the root of our financial system is the way our money is created.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of misunderstanding about this. \u00a0 And as the financial system has steadily become more complex and abstract, a whole lot of people don\u2019t try to understand it.\u00a0 Economists invested in the current system tend to provide others with confusing explanations, and want to make us think there are no alternatives, but there are.<\/p>\n<p>Most people don\u2019t know that an alternative was first proposed by some of our nation\u2019s leading economists in the 1930s.\u00a0 As one of them wrote, \u201cits purpose was to save capitalism!\u201d \u00a0 And the growing dominance of the financial sector has created renewed interest in their proposal.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re convinced that changing the way our money is created as an essential first step.\u00a0 While this will be a huge challenge, we also believe there is a clear path forward if enough of our fellow citizens are able to see it. \u00a0 And if our goal is to increase the possibility that the right people with the right ideas are in the right place at the right time, there\u2019s plenty to do and reason to be hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>We are eager for invitations to visit monthly meetings. \u00a0 Our topics and materials include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The role of the financial system in contributing to the crises of wealth concentration, institutional racism, population growth, and climate disruption;<\/li>\n<li>How state and municipal public banking can help address them;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/02\/Boulding-EarthAsSpaceship.pdf\">&#8220;Earth As A Spaceship,&#8221;<\/a> re-inventing capitalism, and real financial reform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-182 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/02\/EarthFromMoon-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"142\" \/>One of us or both together can lead an interactive presentation of 45 minutes, 60 minutes, or 90 minutes.\u00a0 We will plan with our hosts how best to use the available time to explore our views about any of these topics.\u00a0 We\u2019d also welcome an invitation to lead a longer workshop that explores all of these topics as an integrated whole.<\/p>\n<p>Our purpose is to share what we\u2019ve learned about the climate disruption, institutional racism, the concentration of wealth, and systemic growth.\u00a0 With all that\u2019s at stake for our spiritual lives and for advancing Friends testimonies in our world, we hope that you\u2019ll want to learn about these things too.<\/p>\n<p>We also think that Friends Committee on National Legislation may have a unique opportunity to advance the prospects for real financial reform.\u00a0 So it\u2019s really important that by 2022, FCNL has made a seasoned examination of what Friends are led to do about a financial system that must keep growing to keep going.\u00a0\u00a0 Please let us hear from you! Thank you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steve.olshevski@gmail.com\">steve.olshevski@gmail.com<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:eddreby@gmail.com\">eddreby@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/02\/RealFinancialReform.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Climate Crisis, the Monetary System, and Real Financial Reform.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Olshevski and Ed Dreby are traveling (virtually right now) to Monthly Meetings to present their traveling ministry on the climate crisis, justice and the growth dilemma.\u00a0 Among the many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":20,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}