Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
With all the cheer-leading going on regarding plunging oil prices, and therefore the price at the pump, it is difficult to ring the alarm bell and get any serious attention. Who wants to be told this is not a good thing? It’s such good economic news, freeing up more of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Al Gore is determined to save the planet. In a speech yesterday, he began to lay out a plan for reducing the carbon emissions that are leading to the heating of the planet, global warming that threatens the future of civilizations around the world.
He also gave a clarion call for [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
As you may know, there is a fierce argument about nuclear energy raging among those concerned about the rise in greenhouse gases that are threatening the Earth’s atmosphere by heating it up rapidly (gently referred to as global ‘warming’). Nuclear energy does not emit greenhouse gases and so some environmentalists [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Among the resources that we humans are seriously depleting is water. Population stresses, overuse and waste in rich developed countries, contamination, and growing areas of drought are exacerbating a problem already critical in some parts of the world. Some Middle East experts will tell you that much of the tension [...]