Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Can you say the headline with an Aussie accent? The quote comes from Michael (??? couldn’t make out the last name), one of many people being interviewed this week on the Today Show’s week-long series, Ends of the Earth. Michael is a lawyer in Australia who has taken up the [...]
Tags: blue hole, climate change, ecological overshoot, ends of the earth, fabian cousteau, living beyond the end of the world, melting glaciers, Mt. Kilimanjaro, planetary crisis, today show, toxic waste
Posted November 13th, 2008 in
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Spirituality and Ecological Hope was created to provide a forum, a space, for a growing community to reflect on what kind of human beings we will be as we go through the ecological crises that face us in this century.
This can be a grim reflection. Very little about our lives, how we live here in [...]
Tags: and god said it was good, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, living beyond the end of the world
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We bask in a new political moment here in the U.S. We bask in a new moment — for a moment.
Because we know how difficult the days ahead will be.
President-Elect Barack Obama, to our relief, did not take a triumphant tone in his victory speech. The tone was sober, even [...]
Tags: change we can believe in, ecological overshoot, ecosystem breakdown, global warming, planet in peril, President-elect Barack Obama
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
These are scary times, or maybe ‘unnerving’ is the better word. I was watching the House hearings today with Alan Greenspan and was stunned by his admission that the ‘best minds’ in the financial world were not smart enough to see what was coming.
Not smart enough. Among other things…
But there [...]
Tags: alan greenspan, benoit mandelbrot, butterfly effect, credit default swaps, ecological overshoot, financial crisis, margaret atwood, nassim nicholas taleb, securitization, verlyn klinkenborg, waxman hearings