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.
Spirituality of integrity, and also honesty
An ecological spirituality requires integrity and honesty — honesty about the world and who we are in it. The onus is on the wealthy to carry the weight of the societal, economic, and political changes required to save us from catastrophe. It’s in the bible.
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.
Bring carbon emissions to zero by mid-century, or else…
New studies indicate that we must bring carbon emissions down to zero within forty years in order to avoid dangerous climate destabilization, in other words, to save the prospects for life on the planet.
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.
Humans are ruining the oceans
Human activity is ruining the oceans.
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.
We have entered a new geological epoch — made by us
Humans have so altered the physics and biological processes of the Earth that more scientists concur we are moving from one geological epoch, the Holocene, to a new one, called the Anthropocene, with a sixth great extinction already underway.
Diminished snowpack in US west spells trouble
Human-caused global warming is causing the snowpack in the western United States to decline. A water crisis looms. Ecological hope depends upon our willingness to stop growth that is completetly unsustainable.
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