Blessed Unrest

Late this evening we finished a long day of driving the fabled Cabot Trail around Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Unfortunately it was a dark, cold, rainy day with constant wind. Very few photo opportunities and very few people to talk with - not much to write about and little to add to our quest. On checking our travel blog I discovered a comment from Jane Ann Jefferies of Los Angeles. She put me on to Paul Hawkens' work entitled "Blessed Unrest: How The Largest Movement In The World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming." Great title. That led to his website which contains an excellent video and links to "Wiser Earth", yet another website advocating social justice and environmental action at the individual and community level, something we are repeatedly rediscovering in the small communities as we work our way across Canada. We find that folks have an innate sense of rightness and they are tired of waiting for governments or political parties or corporations to get around to doing the right thing whether it's getting done with unjust wars or stopping environmental degradation, or denying basic healthcare to the masses of people in need, or outsourcing responsibility for the things we consume. Discovering Hawkens is discovering that we are not alone in our own modest findings, and further endorsement of his philosophy by people like David Suzuki, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Jane Goodall, and Stewart Brand makes for a very nice ending to this day.
...Bob