Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Have you seen Venus and the crescent moon of the past 2 nights?! I gasped out loud last evening just after sunset when the clouds parted and revealed these magnificent lanterns in the early night sky following each other to the horizon. Now Jupiter is high in the [...]
Tags: climate change, ecological damage, end times, fracking, new creation, new year, north dakota oil play, oil tar sands, political dysfunction, titanic 100th anniversary
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Impermanence is written into creation, an ongoing process of unfolding since the igniting of the Big Bang. We are all in that process. It is dynamic, vibrant, fecund. We experience impermanence in a profound way here in the northern hemisphere at this time of year. Darkness fills more [...]
Tags: carbon methane release, christmas, climate change, global warming, impermanence, industrial technological society, permafrost melting, winter solstice
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Have you seen the scenes from Bangkok? This is a shattering event for one of the world’s major urban areas. [Video link] I can’t say this one unique event is due to global warming, yet, something inside tells us what we already know or intuit – these rain [...]
Tags: christian parenti, climate change, immigration, increasing winter drought in mediterranean, living beyond the end of the world, migration, migration of mexicans to united states, noaa, stern review, tropic of chaos
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Ecological tipping points, economic tipping points, political tipping points – all converging on each other in multiple interrelated crises in our forests, oceans, atmosphere and biosphere, our governance (or lack thereof), into the streets of cities all around the world, a sense that ‘this’ cannot go on as [...]
Tags: climate change, concentration of wealth, democracy, ecological devastation, occupy phillippines, occupy wall street, texas aridification, threat to monarch migration, tipping points, working age adults new face of poverty