Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Some more bad news today regarding the Greenland ice sheet. New studies, reported yesterday in Science, show that it is melting faster than expected, that it is no doubt due to global warming, and that the ocean levels will also rise more quickly as a result. This melt of fresh [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
One of the many things I learned over 25 years of Central America solidarity work is that real change almost never comes from above. Those at the top of the social, economic, and politcal pyramids tend to reinforce the status quo — after all, they are the ones who benefit. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, this does not foster ecological hope. McDonald’s has become a promoter of the Hummer just at a time when, for the sake of the earth, some of us are trying to make them socially unacceptable — as bad as lighting up a cigarette in an enclosed room.
Seems McDonald’s is [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Unions representing scientists working with the currently inaccurately named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) charge that the agency is deliberately corrupting the science aimed at protecting consumers from toxic substances. Here’s a link for more info.
Into such hands, politicians who care more about hiding truth and protecting corporate interests than in protecting you [...]