Does the ‘New Year’ mean anything?
New year’s day - linear time means little to the natural world. Reconnecting our beings to the natural world can help us restore the true meaning of the human journey.
Climate change will change our lives — and most say they are ready
Majorities around the world are prepared to make lifestyle changes to slow down global warming caused by human carbon dioxide emissions. Climate change is altering the world and setting the stage for increased instability and political conflict.
At the tail end of the Memorial Day weekend, a word about war
Ecological hope depends on ending war as a way of doing business in this world — a Memorial Day reflection
The coming chaos
Global climate change will pose grave issues of international security. International cooperation centered around the common good will be required to reduce the risk of chaos and violence.
Climate change will intensify global conflict
Global warming/climate change as national security threat. International conflict one side-effect of climate change.
‘The stakes are as high as they can get…’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I like to mention particularly good books that I’m reading, and I have just begun a fascinating, if sobering, one — The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Homer-Dixon is director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and […]
The growing oil crunch: your life is in whose hands?
The power of the global oil industry has shifted from the big US and European corporations to ’seven sisters’ in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Malaysia with enormous consequences for the politics and economies of the world.
This war is for oil - the escalation is all about the oil
The war in Iraq, the Bush war escalation, is about securing access to Iraq’s oil for the US oil industry.
A poem for you today
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Not news today, just a poem from Denise Levertov:
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It Should Be Visible
If from Space not only sapphire continents,
swirling oceans, were visible, but the wars —
like bonfires, wildfires, forest conflagrations,
flame and smoky smoulder — the Earth would seem
a bitter pomander ball bristling with poison cloves.
And each war fuelled with weapons: […]
Oceans and land in big trouble
Fostering Ecogical Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I guess we just have to keep putting out the bad news, the results of more and more studies, in the hope that this news eventually reaches critical mass in the consciousness of the nation.
Here’s one: the oceans are in big trouble. The rising CO2 levels are killing off […]
