Month: June 2024

Oil Projects Must Consider Full Climate Impact, Top U.K. Court Rules

Britain’s highest court has ruled that local councils and planning groups must consider the full environmental impact of new fossil fuel projects when deciding whether to approve them, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences and that climate activists hailed as a major victory.

In particular, the ruling will make it harder for Britain to move ahead with plans to develop large offshore oil fields in the North Sea, including Rosebank, one of the country’s largest undeveloped oil fields. Situated off the coast of Scotland, Rosebank contains an estimated 300 million barrels of recoverable oil.

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New Directions Books) Paperback – Illustrated, February 28, 1975 

by  Thomas Merton  (Author), 

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“This is quintessential Merton.”―The Catholic Review.

“The moment of takeoff was ecstatic…joy. We left the ground―I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering…” With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient.

His travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back again to Bangkok for his scheduled talk at a conference of Asian monastic orders. There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian vocation. His last journal entry was made on December 8, 1968, two days before his untimely, accidental death. Amply illustrated with photographs he himself took along the way and fully indexed, the book also contains a glossary of Asian religious terms, a preface by the Indian scholar Amiya Chakravarty, a foreword and postscript by Brother Patrick Hart of the Abbey of Gethsemani, as well as several appendices, among them the text of Merton’s final address. Black-and-white photographs throughout