Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So much news to comment on, but I don’t want to do news right now. I want to do contemplation, I want to take a long walk on this chilly foggy day along Lake Michigan, to love the melting snow-cover, to cherish all that I love, all that [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Congress is about to have the U.S. embark on a foolhardy alternative fuel journey, because it is much easier to try to replace oil in our engines and keep the economy slumping along than it is to alter the logic of production based on consumption of oil, whatever [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We learn this as children — we are responsible for our actions. When they have bad consequences, conscience tells us that we must take responsibility for that. And then there are the rich nations of the world… There are countries that have benefited from pollution, and we are [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “We are seeing a transfer of wealth of historic dimensions.” That’s one change. It has been coming for some time now, riding the wave of escalating oil prices. Those petrodollars have to go somewhere, after all. Excess wealth must be invested somewhere. When wealth shifts, so does power. [...]