As with so many topics these days, the terms of discussion of our anxious times have been ripped out of the hands of disciplined servants of language and employed with lower and lower fidelity to their original underlying concepts. It’s a bit like the common reporting of scientific studies when complex and somewhat ambiguous findings are reduced to a compelling if not entirely (or even vaguely) accurate soundbite.
Nowhere is this linguistic drift and violence more marked than in the apocalyptic rantings about good and evil coming from the various aspirants to various thrones. Good and evil have been favorite memes of humanity for a long time, probably as long as we’ve been dissolving the actual world into a rendering of words and art. It certainly has been a fascination of philosophers and clerics as long as they’ve been documenting their thoughts.
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Like any love affair, loving the Earth, being kind to it, is hard work. This has been brought home to me over the last couple of months as the weather has warmed and various landscaping projects big and small have called. Two projects, in particular, have conspired to draw my attention to this particular application of the ways of love and effort. 
The Wondering Pathfinder 