Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [NOTE: this will be my only post this week. Next post next Monday.] In the past couple of weeks in just two incidents, we have lost 40 lives to the drilling and mining of fossil fuels. Others are injured, scarred for life, traumatized by sudden, devastating explosions from [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: No, no more, no more this business about ‘clean coal.’ Coal-powered energy is brought to you at the cost of human lives and vast ecological destruction. This issue is not just about CO2, though coal is the largest single source of CO2 emissions and that must end. But [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [LONG POST AGAIN. I promise to shorten them from here on out!] Okay, we get going again now in the new year. And, friends, we face some pretty stark choices, choices that need to be made immediately if we are going to reverse the course we are on [...]
Tags: anthropocene era, carbon tax, clean coal, dirty coal, glacier national park, global climate change, global warming, james hansen, plum creek timber, united states forest service
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Warning: this post is a bit on the long side. But please read on through, email it to friends and networks, copy it and share it in discussion and reflection groups. We have got to relearn how to live on this precious planet!] I am preoccupied now with [...]
Tags: clean coal, climate change, coal ash disaster, coal industry, dirty coal, global climate disruption, global warming, kingston fossil plant, shishmaref, tennessee valley authority