Peace to the entire earth community in this holiday season

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Posted on December 27, 2006
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Ecological overshoot, Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Earth spirituality, Inspiration and reflection

Fostering Ecological Hope

Today from Margaret Swedish:

Sorry for the long unannounced break in posting.  The holidays piled up, along with some things not planned for — you know how it is.  I am posting a bit sporadically over this holiday week, so please bear with me.

Here is one of the thoughts that plagued my holidays:  how much carbon did we spew into the atmosphere with all our consumption and traveling?  One detail to provide perspective:  Wal-Mart ships a huge percentage of its retail goods from factories in
China — all those little plastic objects traveling across the ocean on ships to your Christmas trees.  Think how much better it would be for our planet if we shopped locally, and what we bought did not deplete or pollute our precious biosphere.

Another detail from this day:  NBC Nightly News just reported that President Bush has acknowledged that Polar Bears are an endangered species because of global warming.   Good morning, Mr. President.  Are you waking up?

Tomorrow I will post about disppearing island nations.  It has begun.

For those of you who care about our planet, let’s think of the turning of this year as a turning of US politics.  It could happen.  We will have new possibilities in this new year to get action from Congress.  We will have opportunities to present our global warming, resource depletion agenda to Congress, and with good work, through Congress to the White House.

As we offer our greetings of ‘peace on earth, good will to all,’ let’s add this wish — that this peace on Earth be a peace rich in biodiversity, in the abundance of life.  Let our commitment to peace be a commitment to restoring our fundamental relationship with the rest of nature and the creatures with whom we share this planet and on whom we depend for our own well-being.  May good will to all be not only to all humans, but to all Earth life, within which we, too, are sustained and nurtured.

Keep tuned.  I will post a couple more times during this holiday week.

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