Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I just get so discouraged by the political culture. It’s not like I find my hope in politics; but what I know is that we have to move politics to get done the things we need to get done. And to do that, we have to bring a [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, cliamte change legislation, climate change, ecological hope, ecology and spirituality, global warming, health care reform, laws of creation, Pope Benedict XVI, rush limbaugh
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for going a week without a post. I am at the deadline for a big project, which I will tell you about soon, and have had trouble keeping up with the site. And while that is still true today, this news that came by way of Facebook [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, climate crisis, copenhagen climate change conference, ecological hope, el nino, global warming, greenhouse gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, la nina, new creation
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, Congress will be teeing off in the great cap-and-trade debate this week (see also, Climate Bill Seeks a Broad Coalition), with many Democrats struggling to get meaningful carbon dioxide reductions written into law, while Dems from big fossil fuel producing states join with Republicans to struggle for [...]
Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon tax, climate change, ecological hope, economic growth, fossil fuel industry, industrial capitalist economy, oil tar sands, u.s. largest co2 emitter
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So I’m headed back from the Faith, Economy, Ecology Forum in DC and checking my email. Someone sends this: Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study: World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say, an article in the UK’s The Independent. So much for [...]
Tags: carbon budget, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, earth spirituality, faith economy ecology, global warming