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Posted on February 25, 2007
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Greenhouse gas emissions, Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Fostering ecological hope depends a lot on people getting passionate about our multiple ecological crises, being willing to change their lives, and then to get active to change policies that will determine whether or not our planet remains habitable for future generations.
It really is that stark.
Bill McKibben (The End of Nature, among other writings) is one among many organizations and individuals who are spearheading a national grassroots drive to organize hundreds of local actions around the country on April 14 to demand action on global warming. Their targets are our legislators in Washington. The theme for the campaign is: Congress: Stop Global Warming. Cut Carbon 80% by 2050!
In a recent issue of The Christian Century, McKibben writes about the campaign and why it is important for the faith community to get involved.
If you care about the rest of God’s creation, then get to work. God made (in whatever way) the creatures of the earth and of the sea; we’re now engaged in a massive, rapid act of decreation.
Yup, we can wreck the whole thing. Actually, we are well on our way. Now that we know this (which means we have no excuses anymore), are we ready to do what must be done to save the biosphere in which we live and breath and have our being, to alter course, stop the decreation process, and become part of the process of re-creation, healing, renewal?
We recommend this campaign strongly and urge all our visitors to get involved. Visit: Step It Up 2007.
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