Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
“…if Americans had started a 10-year phase-in of 40-mile-a-gallon driving standards in 2001, they would already be saving 267 million barrels of oil a year. That’s nearly twice the amount produced annually at the Prudhoe Bay field.”
So write NY Times editors in an editorial today – their response to the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I will confess to not being a big John Tierney fan, one of the NY Times op-ed writers. He certainly has not exactly been a big booster for the earth and its limits, nor a particular friend to environmentalists. He is libertarian by background, rather arrogantly so, and a proponent of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We get a lot of bad news, so it’s important to report the goods news. International pressure has been building to get Brazil to take action to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest – which because of illegal logging, development, and drought is near the point-of-no-return, of death
One of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The new war in the Middle East claims lives, infrastructure, the social frabric of many communities. It leaves lasting damage from all of that, and some of the more lasting damage is that being done to the environment. Few things degrade the earth more quickly than war, making it even harder to recoup losses, [...]