Spirituality and Ecological Hope

For another good story on what we’re dealing with on climate change, see Consensus grows on climate change, a March 1 story from BBC News.  The BBC news web site has a lot of great background on global warming, as you will see when you click on this article. 

Excerpt: “The doubling of CO2 from pre-industrial stable levels (270 parts per million) is expected to happen around the middle of the century. 

 “What really worries the scientists is that we are already seeing major disruptions despite having increased CO2 by just 30%.  

“A recent scientific report commissioned by the UK government warned that the world might already be fixed on a path that would begin melting the Greenland ice cap. That in turn would start raising sea levels throughout the world.  

“There will be sceptics, predominantly in the US… But assuming the key points remain, the broad international expert consensus embodied in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] will make it harder for the US administration to say that climate change is a problem for the future which can be solved by technological advances.” 

Bush and Blair “were told by international business leaders last year that more expensive new technologies would not supplant cheap dirty technologies unless governments set binding targets and timetables for reducing greenhouse gases, which the US has rejected.”