Disenthralling Ourselves. By Peter Applebome, NYTimes, March 30, 2008. "There's nothing unexpected in the current melding of Gandhi and climate change, tied to the Metropolitan Opera's first staging of Philip Glass' opera about Gandhi, 'Satyagraha' ('The Power of Truth'), beginning April 11. After that is a private conference at [The Garrison Institute which will focus on how the ideas of Gandhi relate to current environmental issues], followed by a free public event on April 13 at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine... The guiding notion is that climate change today calls for the same kind of collective will, shared destiny, moral purpose, personal responsibility and strategic acumen as the other great movements, and that Gandhi's ideas and achievements are entirely germane to what needs to happen now... But disenthralling ourselves, seeing the world and its perils afresh, may be even harder now than it has ever been -- too many diversions, too murky and vaporous a peril, too little sense of urgency, an enemy that is more us than them."
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