Greenland is melting, melting…
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
CNN reports that President Bush has decided the globe is warming. Apparently he is going to talk about this in his State of the Union address.
Imagine that! I’ll bet we hear about switchgrass again. And I’ll bet he will continue to oppose mandatory carbon emission reductions.
Check out this article […]
NASA facing severe budget cuts in Earth satellite programs
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
In regard to our ecological crisis, the Bush administration is running headlong in the wrong direction. We have posted previously about the attempts to silence NASA’s preeminent climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen. But if you can’t get the experts to shut up, you can do something worse — cut […]
We have time to save the planet; let’s use it
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
[This is a longish reflection today — just a warning. But I really wanted to share these thoughts with you on this important national holiday.]
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I think about the legacy of long political, principled, social, and cultural struggle, of dedicated and inspired leaders, […]
North African temperatures coming to London
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just listened to this scary audio report on the BBC website, dated Jan. 10. To listen, go here, then click on the audio report, “This is the worst case scenario.”
Keep in mind, as you listen, that he is speaking in centigrade. When he talks about summer temps in the […]
Getting hotter all the time
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
By now you’ve probably heard it from a variety of sources — 2006 was the hottest year ever recorded. I link to the Chicago Sun-Times article because my niece sent it to me with a note saying that it was emblazoned across the front page yesterday. Good. That is […]
Abusive relationship with nature at root of ecological crisis
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
At the root of our ecological crisis is a profoundly abusive relationship with nature that goes back centuries. Correcting and healing that relationship is, therefore, key to salvaging Earth’s amazing creativity and capacity for Life.
So this morning I just want to share a couple of examples of this abusive […]
we are altering the very chemistry of the planet
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Today I want to share a reflection more than news and commentary. It is something I read this morning in the new book by the noted “geologian,” the monk, Thomas Berry, a pioneer in the emerging Earth Spirituality of our time. It comes from an essay, “Earth as Sacred […]
Time to get global warming at the top of the political agenda
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
As we have noted before, we have a new opportunity in the US Congress. Representatives and Senators with fairly good track records on environmental and energy issues will be holding key hearings and setting an agenda to address global warming and the urgent need to reduce the greenhouse gas […]
2007 to be the hottest ever
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, so this morning I pick up the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel at the front door where I am staying right now and am greeted with this blazing headline: 2007 may be hottest yet. Given the record warm years of recent decades, that’s saying something.
The prediction is a result of research by […]
When Travel & Leisure takes on global warming, you know it’s gone mainstream
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
A few years back, when I began the megashift in my lifelong work from Central America and US foreign policy to our ecological crisis, it seemed obvious that one of our biggest challenges would be getting the “mainstream” of this society to give attention to this biggest issue of our […]
