Indigenous wisdom has much to teach in this Season of Creation
Montpelier, Vermont — September 12, 2023
by Damien Costello and Randy Kritkausky
Vermont survived the July 2023 flooding. Now we need to tell a new creation story
In the aftermath of the flooding from a storm that dropped as much as 9 inches of rain in 48 hours, our community has been inundated with a different kind of flood.
Coverage of the event in major national media has been proclaiming that Vermont, the land already populating with self-identified climate refugees, is not beyond the environmental apocalypse. In some reports, one can detect an undercurrent of schadenfreude aimed at a small state that had become famous for its environmental leadership, and no small amount of bragging about its ecological and social justice accomplishments.
While physical events shattered our material infrastructure, this new inundation — the news cycle — is shaking our emotional and spiritual foundations.
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