Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, that’s a sensational headline, but, unfortunately, there is great truth in the sensation. Rising meat consumption, our inordinate desire to eat meat products way beyond health needs, even beyond what is actually healthy, is contributing to a mode of cattle, pig and poultry production that is contributing [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As our economy begins to unravel and the hurt sinks in, it might be a good time to ponder the craziness of the economic system that creates this kind of crisis — where investors pour money into fake economies that eventually crash, taking an enormous toll on lives [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: That’s what I want to talk about today — what is wrong with us. When I think about how dire our situation is — ecological overshoot combined with climate change and the widespread toxic contamination of the planet — and with 2-3 billion more people about to join [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s only we humans that make such a big deal out of midnight on the last day of our measured calendars. Other cultures have or have had different calendars with different new year’s days. Animals, the weather, nature, could care less about our human measurements. Maybe if we [...]