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, over [...]
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 change. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 dirtiest [...]
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 ridiculed [...]