"... as for dealing with cold evil directly, I know that there cannot be healing or atonement without relationship. Our task is to restore our relationships with one another and the natural world. Our only hope for restoring this relationship is to shatter the distancing so critical for cold evil. We can start by educating our children to the sense of wonder [Rachael] Carson speaks of, taking them into nature as often as possible and teaching them the ways of soil and wildlife. We can also break distancing by using our imagination to alter the language of cold evil that has almost become second nature to us. For example, we could stop saying "consumer" to define our role in the technological system. To consume means to destroy (as in a consuming fire) or to waste (tuberculosis was called consumption because it wastes away the body). We must no longer be mere consumers, destroying and wasting the natural world. We must no longer be complicit in the crimes of our industrial system. To face cold evil we must become creators, not consumers. We must break out of our techno-cocoons and recognize that the actions we take in deciding which products to buy or which services to use or render will create a better future for ourselves and the earth. We must take responsibility for the consequences of how we fulfill our basic human needs. Further, we must become true citizens, asserting our sovereignty over corporations and not allowing ourselves to be mere consumers of what they provide us. We must also attempt to change our relationship to work. We can no longer be content with mere "jobs" and the wage blackmail through which cold evil works. Despite often overwhelming economic pressures, we must at least attempt to seek a vocation, a calling, that express our values and fits our needs. Our work should be a "profession", a profession of our beliefs - good work whose consequences we can embrace. In addition, we must learn to regularly practice heresy against the religion of Progress. We must reinfuse science with the qualitative experiences required for any holistic search for truth. We must balance efficiency with empathy, and competition with cooperation, not only in our private lives but also in our policy and public discourses. We must never allow the word "progress" to be used except in the context of the question, "Progress toward what"? We then must redefine progress as movement toward a future vision in harmony with the Creation and our spiritual needs.