Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Bet I don’t have to tell you that. This summer much of the country is baking and burning, drying out and turning to ashes. That follows a spring in which other parts of the country were drowned in torrents of rain, record snow melt, record-breaking river floods, while [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In fact, hiding from them only puts off the day of reckoning when the impacts will be far worse than if we had been like grown-ups and faced reality. I mean, the entire state of Texas has been declared a natural disaster area from drought and wildfires – [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The weather news has been harsh all year long in many parts of our world. This country has seen some bad stuff, no? Floods, drought, tornadoes, scorching heat waves, wildfires. The other night, in anticipation of the cold front breaking the back of our heat wave, we had [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Friends, this is a busy week, too busy for a truly thoughtful post, yet my heart is heavy with many worries and fears. We really are right up against it now, this threshold I tried to describe in my book (see sidebar). We are at the moment when [...]