A spirituality of hope 2
Two energy paths in front of us diverge: one feeds the engine of growth and leads to disaster, the other leads to simpler, scaled-down lives and can pull us back from the edge of the cliff.
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 ‘frozen garden or Eden,’ or Noah’s ark — some folks seem to know we’re in trouble
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is open for business, burying deep in the earth the collective memory of human agriculture. It is another indication that some people know we are in real trouble.
Humans are ruining the oceans
Human activity is ruining the oceans.
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.
The ever-shrinking Lake Mead
Lake Mead, water source for 22 million people, is shrinking because of global warming and too much demand.
Energy: what we should NOT do vs. what some folks are trying to do
Contrast between the efforts of many local communities around the country to reduce their carbon footprint, while efforts on the part of some big energy interests to increase energy from nuclear and biofuel production will add to the greenhouse gas problem.
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.
Eating meat is destroying the planet
Industrial livestock production is contributing significantly to global warming and climate change, deforestation, pollution of water and soil, and the deterioration of human health.
Living beyond our means
We are living beyond the earth’s capacity to carry us with our levels of consumption and waste. The economic crisis should be a time for us to ponder how to get out of the trap of a consumer economy to one the earth can sustain.
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