Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It was our hope that a new majority in Congress would change the political profile on the crisis of climate change. That hope appears to be warranted now in the House where the new Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has proposed the creation of a new Select Committee on Energy Independence [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We don’t want to get out of our cars, much less give them up all together. And we sure don’t want to cut back on all that air travel that takes us to exotic places, warm beach or cold ski vacations, international conferences (on things like, oh, say, global warming), [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 from [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 the [...]