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    Poverty, violence and spiritual wildfires

    by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency Aug 09, 2018 3 minutes

    "They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit."

    The news this past weekend emerging from my fair city, Chicago, felt like news about wildfires sweeping across California: the sudden, hellish karma of climate change, that is to say, the gradual collapse of life-sustaining conditions on Planet Earth thanks to centuries of cluelessly exploitative human activity.

    The news from Chicago was, of course, about gun violence: at least 74 people shot between Friday afternoon and Monday morning in a slew of unconnected incidents,

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