Spirituality and Ecological Hope

Fostering Ecological Hope

Today from Margaret Swedish:

Love to share good info, helpful tools and visuals that make it easier to see and to understand what is going on with global warming, fossil fuels, and resource depletion.

So check out this page which shows graphically the sources of greenhouse gas emissions.  As you see here, it ain’t just the cars we drive.  Vehicle emissions must be cut, but that is only the beginning and doesn’t get to the biggest source — the generation of power for electricity and for heating.  That’s why we need more than clean cars; we also need to focus on developing clean alternative sources of power, and quickly.

So we rule out oil, gas and, most especially, coal.  We must shift, again, quickly, to solar, wind, water, tides, in a broad mixture of clean energy sources.  The technology exists, but not the political will, not the will to live differently, to lower consumption, to change how we power our homes and businesses, to recreate life in a way that stops further damage to our atmosphere.

And here’s more from the World Resources Institute on the implications of the use of fossil fuels and things we could start doing now to reduce the destructive impact of our energy consumption.