Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Don't miss our home page features below the blog post] Like any death, or fatal diagnosis, there comes the time of acceptance, the moment when it really sinks in. It is often accompanied by deep sorrow and depression. You can feel that coming in regard to the Deepwater [...]
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[scroll down homepage to view sobering video from Greenpeace] Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We insist over and over again that hope must be based in reality or else it is false. When we speak of ecological hope, we speak of something urgent and difficult – we must face the extent of the [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [DON'T MISS CBS's '60 MINUTES' FROM SUNDAY, INCLUDING AN INTERVIEW WITH AN OIL RIG SURVIVOR. BP IS RUNNING A CRIMINAL OPERATION IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. SEE WHY EVEN GREATER DISASTERS AWAIT US. DEMAND STRONGER ACTION FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.] Look, it really is no comfort to say [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: You can feel the despair beginning to sink in – the BP oil spill disaster is a permanent, horrible loss, a permanent horrible still-unfolding toxic poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico, its living creatures, and the wetlands and shores, the deltas and islands, the coastal ecosystems of our [...]
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