Cashmere, China and damaged lungs in California; Brazil gets real about global warming; and then the matter of a little heat, a bit of rain
Climate change, deforestation, heat waves, floods, inappropriate development — how we humans live on the planet is the problem in our ecological crisis.
Gone for a bit
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, friends and visitors, it has been a busy summer thus far. My posting schedule has been more limited. I will be attending the summer institute at the Sophia Center in Oakland for the next few days and will not post again until the 25th or so.
But […]
What are we willing to do to keep the worst from happening?
Drinking bottled water is connected to the dire forecasts for climate change in the northeast, Chicago, and the parched southwest.
Ecological hope is about a whole lot more than climate change
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We try to emphasize this whenever we can: our ecological crises is about a whole lot more than global climate change. That is but one in a long list of concerns under a larger heading — ecological overshoot, living beyond the means of the planet to sustain the […]
Arctic ponds drying up, permafrost is draining, habitats are being destroyed all over the Earth
Global warming and development are destroying habitats and hastening the sixth great extinction.
Developers v. Ecologists - essential conflict of our times
Developers vs. Ecologists - the essential conflict of our times.
