Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[Note: I will be on the road over the next week. I will not be able to post tomorrow, but will do so as I am able while away from my usual desk. Thanks for visiting!! and for caring about our Earth.]
“This is not a fight against nature. It is a battle [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
France has come up with an interesting idea to put pressure on the Kyoto Protocol scofflaws, those nations that won’t cooperate in the international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — like the US.
Tax their imports.
Oooooo, that’s the pocketbook — that hurts.
Said Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin:
Europe has to use [...]
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 floods [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 the [...]