Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[WARNING: a fairly longish post.]
High gas prices have become a central election issue, and some politicians are playing a dangerous game with it. Promising less expensive oil through off-shore drilling and, once again, endless supply if we just keep on drilling is a deception of vast proportions. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Now that’s a mouthful. Terrifying, too.
…knowledge-enabled mass destruction. Mass destruction enabled by knowledge.
Geoengineering — attempting to use knowledge to engineer the basic systems of Gaia, of Earth, in the hopes of saving us from global warming and other horrors threatening the atmosphere and biosphere of the planet.
Be scared. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What would your Mother say if you walked through her house disposing of trash on the floors and furniture, leaving your body waste in her sinks and shower stalls, filling it with clutter, making an unhealthy mess of the place, disease and germs feasting on your waste, fouling the air [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So, then, why don’t we wake up?
It’s like those alarm clocks that keep getting louder and louder the more they are ignored. When they annoy us, we hit the button, but a few minutes later, it starts all over again.
Our ecological crisis. Alarms going off all over [...]