Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Breathtaking, these scenes of the fires outside Santa Barbara. Mesmerizing. Awe-striking. Leaves me speechless, without words — and yet I attempt the words, because that is what I do. I write. I give presentations. I talk — to and with others. I try to find words, images, that [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So I’m headed back from the Faith, Economy, Ecology Forum in DC and checking my email. Someone sends this: Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study: World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say, an article in the UK’s The Independent. So much for [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Justice matters. Justice matters hugely. So if we are talking about ecological chaos and destruction — and we are, it is part of our future now — our present, too — then we must talk about justice. We must talk about who is responsible for the damage and [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Recently, I’ve been reading articles about the possibilities of mega-droughts in Africa (one’s mind does not even want to go there in terms of potential for human catastrophe), the possibility of sea level rises of as much as 10 feet this century!!!! (bye, bye London, Tokyo, Manhattan, and [...]