Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: A new study indicates that the Colorado River will suffer such losses from climate change and human demand that by 2057 western states could lose their primary water source. As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, regular readers and visitors know how we feel about mountaintop removal coal mining. We don’t like it. It must stop. It must stop NOW! I come back to this over and over: first, because we have to stop living off this destruction, we must break our cheap [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In my book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ a Spirituality of Hope, I focus a chapter on the growing links between our ecological crises and the threat of wars and other forms of social violence. If we think oil has something to do with going to [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: If you want, and in a hurry. If you want a liveable world, if you want your kids to grow up not in catastrophe but rather in difficulty that contains hope for a future, live differently – –if you want, as we said in our previous post, and [...]