Some weather…

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Posted on August 23, 2007
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Ecological hope, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality, Inspiration and reflection

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:

Sorry for not posting for several days. Have been a bit overwhelmed with many things, including my book deadline — which you will hear more about — the book, I mean, not the deadline — in months to come.

Just wanted to make note of what we are dealing with weatherwise here in this country — not that I have to tell you. I am still in Wisconsin. It has been raining here.

Incredible — 14 inches in Madison, more than a foot in La Crosse. Milwaukee is not quite so bad — several inches. The Menomonee River near my childhood home is ready to bust with another good downpour, which could come overnight and tomorrow yet again.

Northern Wisconsin — still in serious drought.

My brother is traveling south — called me from the Shiloh Civil War battlefield park — 102 degrees. The drought in the southeast has become something of historic dimensions.

Moderate drought in the mid-Atlantic.

Raging forest fires in Idaho. The smoke put a haze over Milwaukee some days ago, before the deluges of water.

Weather and climate are not the same thing. But climate makes weather and weather patterns over the long term. I wonder if this might be a good time to talk about what is to come as the globe warms — with our families, communities, congregations, etc. Here’s the question: what kind of world do we want for the generations that come after us? What kind of world do we want for today’s children?

The Arctic Ocean is at a record summer melt. That dark water is absorbing still more heat from the sun.

Signs and portends. Could be the apocalypse. Could be we made a mess of our precious, beloved, sacred planet. Could be the Earth was put into the care of very poor hands indeed.

Just a few thoughts for today. No links. Just wanted to share this with you tonight as our flash flood watch continues into its 4th or 5th day. This weather is not the same as climate. But it suggests what our world will be like if we continue on like this.

Thanks for caring.


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