Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Over and over again they ridiculed those who said the Iraq war was about oil. Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Fox News [sic]. Guess what the war was about? Oil. No, not just oil. It was about ExxonMobil and Chevron and Shell and BP and Total — those oil [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Everything we need to live seems to be under siege these days. Water — too much of it (central Midwest), too little of it (the West and Southeast); oil prices in the stratosphere; food prices rising inexorably — because of too much water and the high cost of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just a reminder: fostering ecological hope is not about fostering false hope about our situation on the planet right now. It is not about fostering denial or trying to assure us that life can go on as it is without a lot of inconvenience or, to be honest, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us. Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Our Relationship with the Environment: the Need for [...]