Spirituality and Ecological Hope

Fostering Ecological Hope

Today from Margaret Swedish:

Fitting news to follow yesterday’s post.  Rich countries are not being responsible stewards of water.  What a surprise!  Poor water policies, poor water management, combined with global warming and climate change, are bringing about water shortages that will become more acute with time.

So reports the BBC today , covering a new study by WWF, a leading environmental organization (formerly the World Wildlife Fund).  In a news release about the study, WWF says of the crisis:

“…a combination of climate change and drought and loss of wetlands that store water, along with poorly thought out water infrastructure and resource mismanagement, is making this crisis truly global.”

Las Vegas comes to mind (see previous post).

To view the full report, click here.

Next week is World Water Week (August 20-26), with an annual meeting in Stockholm.  Might be a good opportunity to reflect on this gift from the earth to us.  It is the stuff of which we are made, our bodies being mostly water.  It is life and sustenance.  For too long we have treated it with disregard, taken it for granted.  We can’t do that any longer.

Find a body of water, a lake, a creek, a wetland, an ocean shore — and just think about this.  Then let’s not only do something different, let’s be something different.