Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
…we westerners have lost our ancestral knowledge of how to survive on the Earth. — Chellis Glendinning
The more I delve into the underpinnings of our ecological crisis, the larger, deeper, more profound the picture becomes. Now I’m reading a book that takes me right back to the original alienation, the [...]
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Well, Friends, there is a lot to talk about here at our project, lots of catching up to do and things to tell you about. When I returned to my home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2 1/2 years ago, after 26 years in the DC area, the question for me was whether or not this [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I’m sorry for not posting for several days. It has been a very busy time.
But I must post today. I must. Like the tsunami that struck Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka several years ago, some natural disasters stun the brain, shatter the heart. They are some of the most devastating reminders [...]
Tags: biocapacity, ecological overshoot, growing gap between rich and poor, haiti dictatorship, haiti earthquake, human solidarity, living planet
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
War is the great Anti-Hope. And we have more than enough of that in the world. Did we need more, or bigger? Will that finally gives us the illusion of security in a very volatile world?
Because illusion is all it will give us — like the death penalty, or bigger [...]
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