Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Think we’re moving out of recession? They tell us that to cover over the fact that we are not, actually, moving out of recession, or that this is just a particularly deep and lasting recession that will end one day, maybe in 2011. But in reality, much, much […]
Tags: corporate debt coming due, debt economy, ecological economics, ecological hope, economic collapse, extreme inequality, gap between rich and poor, growth economy, recession
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 […]
Tags: american way of life, california dream, choose life, colorado river, earth spirituality, ecological economics, ecological hope, gospel of luke, lake powell, new creation, steady state economics, western water supply threatened 2057
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: You know, in this economic meltdown, you look at the signposts to see if there is any direction in terms of where we are headed. I have a few for us today. Goldman Sachs — stunning profits JP Morgan Chase — stunning profits Citigroup — terrific profits Bank […]
Tags: cap-and-trade, Citigroup profits, concentration of wealth, ecological crisis, ecological economics, ecology and economy, economic collapse, Goldman Sachs profits, government bailout, jp morgan chase profits, matt taibbi, paul krugman
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Obstacles to addressing our ecological crisis in any significant way are strewn all through the U.S. culture. We have a president who gets the problem to some extent, at least on climate, but says some stuff that makes me cringe; for example, “There is no contradiction between environmentally […]
Tags: climate change, ecological crisis, ecological economics, fundamentalism and evolution, global climate disruption, global warming, obama on the environment, pew research center