Preaching against the rich (Mark 10:17-31)
When the world is in peril and the rich are to blame, such preaching becomes essential.
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Although it’s socially awkward (and financially risky) to preach directly against the rich, such preaching is existentially crucial now more than ever. The richest 10 percent are responsible for over 40 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and the wealthiest 1 percent contribute more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world. The rich are destroying our planet, and their ideologies, which through political and economic influence become the world ideologies, shape the Dithering, Kim Stanley Robinson’s word in his cli-fi (climate fiction) novels for the general tone of the 21st century, in which policymakers do little to nothing to stop what’s happening.
