Kempthorne and the Polar Bears

Polar bears listed as an endangered species because of global warming, but the Bush adminstration has no intention of addressing the causes of the threat - greenhouse gas emissions.

Bees can’t smell the roses

Bee colony collapse may be due to over use of chemical ferlitizers.

We’re up against it now - the moral quandary

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us.
Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
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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.

Oceans as trash dumps

Oceans have been treated as garbage dumps. The damage is vast and everywhere. It reveals an attitude of contempt for the Earth, and therefore contempt for ourselves.

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.

In 2008, will we stop destroying the planet?

Humans must stop their violence and exploitation of Nature if we are to preserve life at all.

What should be front page news — but isn’t

The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) has just released a new Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4) flagship report indicating that the environment of our world is in rapid decline.

Folks, we’re in trouble

The California wildfires were driven also by climate change, say scientists, a portend of things to come if we don’t begin to live in balance with the ecosystems of the Earth.

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