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.
Winter rampage
If the massive storm across the eastern United States should teach us anything, it is humility before the forces of Nature and compassion for the suffering that violent weather and other natural disasters will continue to inflict on the human community.
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.
Living beyond our means
We are living beyond the earth’s capacity to carry us with our levels of consumption and waste. The economic crisis should be a time for us to ponder how to get out of the trap of a consumer economy to one the earth can sustain.
Climate change will change our lives — and most say they are ready
Majorities around the world are prepared to make lifestyle changes to slow down global warming caused by human carbon dioxide emissions. Climate change is altering the world and setting the stage for increased instability and political conflict.
The world is changing all around us
Oil producers are awash in petrodollars, investing in US corporations and markets around the world. Nearly a third of US debt is held by foreign creditors. Riots in French suburbs reveal more demographic changes that are irreversible drivers in a world undergoing reeling change.
Wildlife-urban interface: evidence of a species gone awry
Our refusal to live within the limits of Nature, evidenced by the growing ‘wildlife-urban interface,’ is a sign of social illness and could lead to species suicide.
Lifestyles must change, too, if we are to save the planet
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Most of what we read about the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Mitigation of Climate Change, is focused on new technologies and policies to enable them as the way to ‘fix’ our global warming problem.
But we all know somewhere inside that this will not […]
The coming chaos
Global climate change will pose grave issues of international security. International cooperation centered around the common good will be required to reduce the risk of chaos and violence.
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