Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: When does that happen? when does climate science denial become weighted with moral culpability? How about, right now? Because it is one thing to deny science when science tells us that the earth revolves around the sun, or that the sun and earth are not the center of [...]
Tags: carbon sinks, climate change, climate science, climate science denial, ecology and spirituality, evolution of consciousness, global warming, global warming is moral issue, koch brothers
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As we noted in our Monday post, we are needing to adjust to living in a world in which there will be shocks upon shocks, unsettling catastrophes, sudden shifts in our reality – to go along with the steady pace of change that defines our unfolding global reality [...]
Tags: 2003 northeast blackout, earth regeneration, ecology and community, ecology and spirituality, Eyjafjallajokull, gulf of mexico oil spill, iceland volcano, stock market plunges 1000 points, sustainability
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Friends, I have been pondering all sorts of things and feeling rather pensive these past few days. Having no inspiration to offer right now – not from lack of inspiration but the difficulty articulating it – I thought I would share here a quote from the ecopsychologist Chellis [...]
Tags: chellis glendinning, ecology and spirituality, ecopsychology, human meaning, ravaged planet, recovery from western civilization, wiserearth
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 [...]
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