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By Sharon Abercrombie
National Catholic Reporter
July 17, 2012
http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/retreat-cosmologist-offers-insight-how-help-planet
Waking up to the enormity of environmental devastation can take a very long time. Mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme spent 17 years passing through the stages of shock, annoyance, sadness and numbness before the truth reached him at the levels of heart and gut.
"I was humiliated that it had taken me so long," he said.
His defining moment of illumination was learning that Earth is going through a mass extinction and human activity, "the activity of good people, according to Thomas Berry, is to blame," Swimme said at a weekend retreat June 29 at River's Edge, a Catholic environmental and wellness center operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph in Cleveland.
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