Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: When does that happen? when does climate science denial become weighted with moral culpability? How about, right now? Because it is one thing to deny science when science tells us that the earth revolves around the sun, or that the sun and earth are not the center of [...]
Tags: carbon sinks, climate change, climate science, climate science denial, ecology and spirituality, evolution of consciousness, global warming, global warming is moral issue, koch brothers
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Wow, the climate in the body politic is really getting ugly, isn’t it? So many disturbing signs that we do not have what we need in terms of civil discourse to even think seriously about our many crises, much less come up with ways to address them. I [...]
Tags: climate change, climate shock, divisive political discourse, ecological crisis, global warming, thomas homer-dixon
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In a culture hypnotized by the myth of economic growth – that there will always be more forever and our standard of living will always increase for all eternity – it is hard to come crashing into the wall of limits. This is our most fundamental theme – [...]
Tags: biocapacity, Earth overshoot day, ecological overshoot, human footprint network, limits to growth, living beyond the end of the world a spirituality of growth
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So Sen. Russ Feingold is in a supposedly tight race. I’m not able to take sides in elections in the context of this project, but I do think it important to educate on what candidates are saying. Feingold believes we must act now to address climate change. His [...]
Tags: coral die-off indonesia, dirty coal, fossil fuel industry, global warming, global warming skeptics, milwaukee floods, pakistan floods, ron johnson, russ feingold, russia heat wave drought, russia loses 25 percent of wheat crop, sen inhofe