Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Want to pass along some thinking from people who are really trying to find a way out of our carbon emissions problem. This article from Foreign Policy in Focus is a critique of the ‘cap and trade’ approach which is all the rage these days. Cap and trade brings a market approach [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Farewell to New England as we knew it. We have already set in motion climate change that will alter its weather in drastic ways, and therefore its geography. Good bye to the beautiful sugar maples and their glorious autumn red — they will be migrating north, if they survive. Vermont maple [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
After sharing so much bad news yesterday evening, we return to the meeting of energy and economic ministers from the top 20 polluter nations in Mexico who are discussing global warming/climate change and what to do about reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are killing life on our planet.
It is not [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, even I can get the contradiction between this post’s headline and my daily subhead about fostering hope. However, here is a story about one of the most frightening studies yet — a computer model that shows that more than one third of the Earth’s land surface will become desert [...]