Engineering the Earth to death

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ‘get it.’
We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the […]

“Demand is very strong. Supply is constrained. It’s as simple as that.”

Food prices are soaring because of rising energy costs, production of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, and growing demand. The result is a sharp increase in world hunger.

Preparing for the hard times

The planetary crisis, the multiple ecological crises, will bring about a very hard time on this Earth. Humans must decide how we will live through this time of turbulence, upheaval, and wrenching change.

Hate the trees

Developers rip up trees, suburbanites demand more pavement for their vehicles, the world demand for grain, for protein, is overshooting the capacity of the Earth to support our diets, and our excessive way of life in the U.S. adds to the crisis. We must being to downscale and live simply — with urgency.

A World of Hurt

We are in a world of hurt, result of our unsustainable way of life and the shifting dynamics within the human community.

Ethanol is causing food scarcity and hunger: a moral quandary for our lives

Ethanol boom in United States is leading to a food scarcity crisis around the world.

The ecological lessons of Lake Mead

The water crisis in the West, represented by the imminent loss of Lake Mead as a water source for 22 million people, is a perfect example of how we have lived wrongly on the planet.

We have entered a new geological epoch — made by us

Humans have so altered the physics and biological processes of the Earth that more scientists concur we are moving from one geological epoch, the Holocene, to a new one, called the Anthropocene, with a sixth great extinction already underway.

There’ll be a change in the weather…

Extreme weather will become more common and more dangerous as the atmosphere warms.

Meanwhile, while we were going into debt and watching ‘American Idol’…

U.S. hegemony is waning. We have entered a new world in which we are but one among many players. Foreign interests are buying stakes in the US economy as our debt grows and the dollar falls. As US influence wanes, we must attain a new attitude of national humility and international cooperation.

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