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 […]
About the climate change in Congress, and what we need to do
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[WARNING: This is a very long post-election post. Felt the need to do this.]
When the new Congress is sworn in next January, we will have our best hope in recent memory to open a national conversation on what needs to be done to address the threatening reality of global […]
One last thought before the elections
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yes, one last thought — but not from me, rather from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Jane Smiley. Her article: The end of the world as we know it?
If Americans had started taking the meaning of oil dependence seriously in 1977, when Jimmy Carter asked us to, or had not […]
At the bottom of the food chain - what we all need to live
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I wanted to emphasize something that Nicholas Kristof writes about in the Op-Ed that I included in last night’s post. He describes an aspect of the natural carbon cycle, how carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by the ocean waters, producing carbonic acid, “the same stuff found in soda pop.”
Too […]
Today’s fright: the news just gets scarier and scarier
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It’s Halloween, but who needs the extra fright these days? We have plenty to frighten us, and I, for one, am unnerved by what’s in the print media right now. As recently as a year ago, heck, even a few months ago, we could complain that the mainstream media, […]
Shocking death toll in Iraq
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is a blog about the challenge of our ecological crisis to US society, and later I will post about some more alarming news in that regard. But I am so shaken by the news this morning about the true extent of mortality in Iraq since the US invasion […]
How to avoid water wars
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Among the resources that we humans are seriously depleting is water. Population stresses, overuse and waste in rich developed countries, contamination, and growing areas of drought are exacerbating a problem already critical in some parts of the world. Some Middle East experts will tell you that much of the […]
War’s terrible ecological toll
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The new war in the Middle East claims lives, infrastructure, the social frabric of many communities. It leaves lasting damage from all of that, and some of the more lasting damage is that being done to the environment. Few things degrade the earth more quickly than war, making it even harder to recoup […]
‘one of the worst environmental catastrophes in Lebanon’s history’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
War kills in many ways. With hundreds of civilians already dead in Lebanaon and no end yet in sight to the violence, it may be hard to even consider a mere environmental catastrophe. But war always brings them about, and it is a way that the death and suffering […]
‘driving drunk at ever higher speeds’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today again from Margaret Swedish:
And still, there is no greater threat to our survival, to the ecosystems and societal systems of this earth, than nuclear weapons. So when I read this NY Times Op-Ed from Bob Herbert, a chill went down my spine (joining the tingle from my Wash. Post reading this […]
