The extraordinary hubris of the Army Corps of Engineers
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If we are to pull ourselves back from the brink of ecological destruction, this society simply must alter its relationship to the natural world of which we are a part. Unfortunately, we ‘tamers of the wilderness’ have claimed the biblical charge to dominate and subdue nature to the point […]
NY Times looks at the price of carbon
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
When I finished the previous post just now, I picked up the NY Times Business section and found this article blaring from its front page. I recommend it to you. It is long and informative and very helpful in understanding different economic approaches to the problem of carbon emissions. […]
Gore proposes ‘carbon freeze’ movement
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Always looking for signs of ecological hope. So here’s one. Al Gore intends to initiate a ‘carbon freeze’ movement, beginning next month, that would be modeled on the Nuclear Freeze Movement of old.
Here’s the article where I found this news. Gore has said before that a movement is needed, but […]
We need better government
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Had to go to NYC for a funeral on Friday and Saturday so I missed a few days with my blog. Now it is time to catch up. I want to post today about the woeful state of our government under this Bush administration, or lack-of-administration, basically the give-away of […]
Oceans and land in big trouble
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I guess we just have to keep putting out the bad news, the results of more and more studies, in the hope that this news eventually reaches critical mass in the consciousness of the nation.
Here’s one: the oceans are in big trouble. The rising CO2 levels are killing off […]
Definition of insanity - Las Vegas
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
The project I am starting, in collaboration with many others, is called Spirituality and Ecological Hope, sponsored by the Center for New Creation (click on “About Margaret Swedish” to read about the project). Its intent is to examine the challenge of the ecological crisis to US society, and, wow, […]
Inequity feeds the ecological crisis
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Browsing the NY Times Business section today, I found this article about the growing gap between rich and poor globally and in this country. The facts are disturbing: the richest 1% of the world’s population holds 40% of the world’s assets. Meanwhile, 50% of the population holds a mere 1.1%.
The […]
It’s warm up in them thar’ mountains — this time the Alps
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Tonight from Margaret Swedish:
The Alps without snow — in December.
A week or so ago, I posted about the problem that the international skiing World Cup competition was having finding mountains on which to ski. Now comes the story from researchers saying that the Alps are experiencing their warmest period in 1,300 years.
No birds. No […]
We take responsibility by how we spend our money
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
During my 25 years with the Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico, I learned a lot about the economic interconnections that bound us with the reality of our sisters and brothers in the region. We saw this in the way our tax money supported military dictatorship in […]
We’ve heard it before - we have just ten years
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
If you’re James Hansen, you face silencing and criticism from the Bush administration, but in Britain you receive awards.
Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and one of our leading climate scientists, was in London just before Thanksgiving to receive the Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal from […]
