Climate change is not tomorrow, it is now
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The effects of climate change due to global warming (due to human activity) are most often spoken of as a future threat. But that’s only if you have blinders on. From buckling Alaskan communities to the threat of rising waters to island nations to the drowning of New Orleans to the […]
Climate change could come fast and furious
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just want to flag this article from the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia (found by way of the EcoEarth.info/blog) about the fears of scientists that multiple tipping points could be crossed soon catapulting the world towards swift, violent, climate change.
It is arguable that this rather benign world has been […]
Climate change bringing about agricultural crisis
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Take a deep breath and then ponder these words:
“We estimate that in the next 25 years the number of people living in water-stressed countries will up from around 800 million to 3 billion people.
“We argue that we are heading for an entirely predictable humanitarian catastrophe.”
These are the words of […]
We are beginning to talk about the right things
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Give credit where due: Sir Nicholas Stern has certainly stirred up the conversation on global warming and climate change. The world’s economic elites don’t pay much attention to the environmentalists or the ecological doomsayers, but they will listen to one of their own.
So when doom becomes not just something […]
About the climate change in Congress, and what we need to do
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[WARNING: This is a very long post-election post. Felt the need to do this.]
When the new Congress is sworn in next January, we will have our best hope in recent memory to open a national conversation on what needs to be done to address the threatening reality of global […]
It’s raining in Washington
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, you’ve probably noticed it has been raining in Washington State. A lot. Apocalyptic rains. Is this global warming?
Over and over again we hear it said that you cannot blame any single weather event on the heating of our planet. On the other hand, there are patterns over time.
So, […]
Drilling our way towards the inevitable
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sometimes I step back and try to view the human species from the perspective of millions of year’s of evolution, millions of years of life forms coming into and out of existence, significant breakthroughs toward greater complexity, huge setbacks, then one time — consciousness, and that, too, emerging, unfolding, […]
Climate changes - in Congress, too
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Let’s hope that what happened at the polls yesterday is good news for our planet. Let’s hope that a new climate, so to speak, will be created in Washington DC that will make it possible for this country to start taking seriously the threat of global warming and climate […]
Coal will cook us all
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
While scientists and environmentalists stress with ever-increasing volume the dangers of rising coal production, still the rate of production increases, inexorably. More irrepleaceable mountains blown to bits, more western land shaved off creating immense open pits, more carbon dioxide (CO2) spewed into our atmosphere.
Coal remains the easiest, cheapest - and […]
One last thought before the elections
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yes, one last thought — but not from me, rather from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Jane Smiley. Her article: The end of the world as we know it?
If Americans had started taking the meaning of oil dependence seriously in 1977, when Jimmy Carter asked us to, or had not […]
