Long time no blog ! But here I go again..
Lots of political chatter at the moment about the EDFs of this world and other big private companies that have increased their charges. Archbishop Justin rightly reminds them of their social obligations .... We wait and hope.
I was reminded of this while rereading Dorothee Soelle's "To Work and To Love - a theology of creation". I remember reading this 30 years ago on a bus going through Seaforth and being very moved by it all, the theology and the urban landscape
She writes: "it is a sacrilege to make the earth into a commodity. The earth does not know mine or thine. The concept of the earth as God's good creation and the concept of the earth as private property are mutually exclusive." (p 34)
So how right is it to profit from selling what does not belong to the seller ? For the seller is not the producer !