Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How else to explain events such as this: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders BP to stop using a certain chemical dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP continues to use it anyway. Or this: because the world is disturbed by images of an oil-fouled sea and [...]
Tags: BP oil spill, chief justice john roberts, corporate control of government, corporations control our lives, EPA, exxon valdez case, genetically modified organisms, Mineral Management Service, monsanto, Tony Hayward
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, see if you can guess who said this: “We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us. Our decision about energy will test the character of the American [...]
Tags: athabasca tar sands, chevron ecuador oil rainforest contamination, deep sea oil drilling, gulf of mexico oil disaster, Jimmy Carter oil crisis, oil industry, peak oil, reagan morning in america, toxic contamination
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “What is in store for our children’s children? What will be left for those who come after? Appalled by the questions themselves, we turn to immediate tasks and try to close our minds to nightmare scenarios of want and war in a wasted, contaminated world.” – Joanna Macy [...]
Tags: apathy, ecological despair, ecological grief, ecological hope, gulf of mexico oil disaster, joanna macy, u.s. way of life, world as lover world as self
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Here’s to our dead, the people who have died for us, for our way of life, for our US American values. Let us pray for them. Let us pray for the 11 men incinerated on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, one of whom, Gordon Jones, all of 28 [...]
Tags: american values, Charlie Melancon, gulf of mexico oil disaster, massey energy, memorial day, moutaintop removal coal mining, u.s. way of life, upper big branch coal mine, uranium mining