![]() ![]() It shows why it’s hard to instantly compensate for wartime disruptions in oil supply, in part due to growing pushback from environmentalists, landowners, and investors. “And now we’ve got everyone saying we’ve got to produce as much as we can.”Īmid an intensifying debate about how best to balance climate goals with energy security, North Dakota presents an interesting case study. “We were told not to drill and shut everything down because the planet’s going to burn up,” says Dave Williams, chief executive officer of Missouri River Resources on the Fort Berthold Reservation. They’ve seen plenty of booms and busts, but this time feels different. They can’t secure new leases on federal lands. In North Dakota, officials think they’ve found a third way – doing both.ĭespite oil soaring to more than $100 a barrel, companies can’t get workers. should emphasize more drilling or saving the planet. Spiking oil prices have heightened the debate over whether the U.S. Over the summer we’ll consider other reparations issues and locales.Building community is hard work, but it might be the fulcrum that lets us balance looking back and moving forward. Treating people well comes with thinking of them that way.Having achieved this, the entire community experiences abundance, “like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” It earns the name “repairer of the breach” and can “build the old waste places.”If today’s debate over reparations builds community, that sounds like progress to me, whatever decision is reached.Today’s issue, dedicated to reparations, looks at slavery, forced assimilation, and territorial dispossession – in the United States, Barbados, and Canada. And behind those good actions, Isaiah indicates, are good attitudes – compassion and humility. ![]() People feed the hungry, free the oppressed, undo heavy burdens. We have to move forward, somehow. To try to understand what might promote that, I turned to the world’s most-read book, the Bible. This phrase in Isaiah 58 piqued my interest: “repairer of the breach.”Here, the repairer isn’t a carpenter or mason but a caring community. That’s what researchers working with Saint Louis University are doing to learn about those enslaved by Jesuits at the school.Yet no amount of looking back can recompense historical harms. We can’t go back and undo the horrors of the middle passage or the sundering of families at slave auctions.What restoration is possible centuries later?A first step can be looking back and taking an honest accounting of the past. That’s where the hard work happens to restore, renew, make whole. But the shorter word it comes from – repair – strikes me as even bigger.As a noun, reparations suggests that a decision has been reached about concrete actions to redress past wrongs. As a verb, repair is a process. ![]()
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