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 [...]
Tags: arable land, biocapacity, biodiversity loss, costing the earth, ecological overshoot, economy of consumption, extinction rates, food scarcity, growing power, national security, obama war president, peak food, war in Afghanistan
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: This will be our one post for the week. Following the Labor Day holiday, we’ll be back to our 2-3 posts per week pace. Lots to think about, but there is nothing like a fire of historic proportions to focus the mind. Regular visitors know that we have [...]
Tags: air pollution, american geophysical union, california wildfires, China incinerators, climate change, ecological overshoot, global warming, Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In my book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ a Spirituality of Hope, I focus a chapter on the growing links between our ecological crises and the threat of wars and other forms of social violence. If we think oil has something to do with going to [...]
Tags: climate change, cradle of civilization, earth spirituality, ecological overshoot, global warming, growing water scarcity, iraq drought, living beyond the end of the world, loaves and fishes, Tigris and Euphrates, war for oil, water shortages
Fostering Ecological Hope Today form Margaret Swedish: This story makes me so sad — and angry. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) just released a report indicating that 1.02 billion people are hungry in this world right now — 100 million more than last year. The most recent increase in hunger is not [...]
Tags: beatitudes and woes, biofuels, climate change, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, food as commodity, gospel of luke, grain for livestock, industrial agriculture, justice and poverty, prophet Isaiah, united nations development program, universal declaration of human rights, world hunger