Myanmar and human compassion

Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar, is a reminder that we live on an alive and volatile planet. Storms like this one remind us that a combination of extreme weather, ecological degradation (like deforestation), poverty, and injustice can bring about enormous human tragedy.

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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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.

Engineering the Earth to death

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ‘get it.’
We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the […]

“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.

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.

Hate the trees

Developers rip up trees, suburbanites demand more pavement for their vehicles, the world demand for grain, for protein, is overshooting the capacity of the Earth to support our diets, and our excessive way of life in the U.S. adds to the crisis. We must being to downscale and live simply — with urgency.

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.

The ever-shrinking Lake Mead

Lake Mead, water source for 22 million people, is shrinking because of global warming and too much demand.

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