Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Threatened, endangered, abused, battered, exploited, degraded — all those things, yes. But also – so beautiful, this planet of ours. My niece sent me this photo — a rainbow over the Chicago lake shore at Lincoln Park: Wow, no? It’s a “wow!” for sure. So much difficult news, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: One person reading my book commented that what I’m saying sounds like, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!! Except that it’s really falling.” That’s how some see the scenario laid out in the book (Living Beyond the ‘End of the World’) in the context of this [...]
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: If you are of a certain age, you know what the headline means. The first lines of her famous song just keep repeating over and over in my head: Don’t know why, there’s no sun up in the sky, stormy weather… I don’t usually post two days in [...]