The sacredness of water 4 — Great Lakes approaching record low levels
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Posted on August 14, 2007
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, regular visitors are aware of my reverence for the Great Lakes. It is from birth. I grew up in Milwaukee, and the shores of Lake Michigan –its sun and moonrises, the varied colors of its waters 
(CarlenLea, the ‘tweaker’ of this blog site, chose that deep blue color in the masthead from a photo of Lake Michigan), its winter rages and summer calm, its cold temperatures, the water we drink from our taps — this is all part of my soul.
So, I gulped a bit reading this article in today’s NY Times: Water Levels in 3 Great Lakes Dip Far Below Normal. And why are three lakes approaching record low water levels? The answer is not yet entirely clear, but two likely culprits speak directly to two of the causes of our ecological crisis, both with human causes — climate change due to global warming, mining and dredging over decades that is causing vast amounts of water to leak and flow directly into the Atlantic Ocean.
Carbon emissions and our profoundly misthought and abusive use of Nature for human benefit (as if we are not also Nature which means the misthought and abusive use of us).
It is a high price we are paying for what we have done to the Nature that holds us, gives birth to us, nurtures and sustains us, takes us back again. All of that ends if ‘Nature’ ends.
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Photo credit:
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory/NOAA
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