Spiritual integrity in a world of growing hunger and desperation
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What I want to talk about today is how we are going to live in a world like the one we have made and keep our integrity.
I feel completely overwhelmed by the week’s news on rising global hunger, the energy supply crisis that is driving up the price of […]
The world begins to go hungry
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
They are eating mud cookies in Haiti.
Haiti has been poor, desperately poor, for a very long time. Last week, the desperation reached a boiling point as the price of food rises across the globe. Haiti has always been a unique example of all that can go wrong […]
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.
A spirituality of hope
Two paths are before us in our energy future — one leads to ecological destruction, the other is a path of hope, a path of alternative new energies, scaled down lifestyles, and a future on the planet for our children and their children’s children.
“Demand is very strong. Supply is constrained. It’s as simple as that.”
Food prices are soaring because of rising energy costs, production of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, and growing demand. The result is a sharp increase in world hunger.
A world reeling
In a world reeling under unprecedented pressures, upheaval is now part of the context in which humans will live over this and the next generations. This can be disaster or opportunity, a call to begin creating a new more life-sustaining way of life.
A World of Hurt 2
Record oil prices, the mortgage crisis, the falling dollar — the world of hurt deepens affecting everything in our lives.
A World of Hurt
We are in a world of hurt, result of our unsustainable way of life and the shifting dynamics within the human community.
Ethanol is causing food scarcity and hunger: a moral quandary for our lives
Ethanol boom in United States is leading to a food scarcity crisis around the world.
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.
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