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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]