Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Copenhagen has center stage for a couple of weeks – for good or ill, right? — hosting the international conference on climate change. I resist those who say that the planet lives or dies by Copenhagen. If that’s the case, get ready for death.
But it’s not the case. It [...]
Tags: andrew revkin, climate change conference, copenhagen, ecological hope, global warming, global warming skeptics, james hansen, paul krugman
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The title of my second book was certainly intended to get attention: Living Beyond the ‘End of the World:’ A Spirituality of Hope.
End of the world? Hope? How do these things go together?
It is uncomfortable, perhaps sad, certainly frightening, but an end of a world is coming, even has already [...]
Tags: deteriorating quality of life, ecological hope, ecology and spirituality, economic crisis, economy of consumption, end of the world, high unemployment, manifest destiny, second law of thermodynamics
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Please forgive the silence. Last week was very busy and I didn’t get a chance to do a thoughtful post — and I don’t like to post if it is not thoughtful.
Really hurting… yes, we are.
The Philippines, American Samoa, Indonesia… there in those places are our brothers and sisters. They [...]
Tags: american samoa, climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, living beyond the end of the world, philippines floods, population density, tsunami, who is my neighbor
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yesterday I went for a viewing of “Waterlife: The Story of the Last Great Fresh Water Supply on Earth.” It was hard to get out of my seat when it was over – 90 mins of unrelentingly bleak news about the Great Lakes, one of the world’s natural wonders. [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological hope, Great Lakes, lake michigan, water pollution, Waterlife