Posted August 20th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: a fairly longish post.] High gas prices have become a central election issue, and some politicians are playing a dangerous game with it. Promising less expensive oil through off-shore drilling and, once again, endless supply if we just keep on drilling is a deception of vast proportions. […]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, justice
Posted June 19th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Over and over again they ridiculed those who said the Iraq war was about oil. Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Fox News [sic]. Guess what the war was about? Oil. No, not just oil. It was about ExxonMobil and Chevron and Shell and BP and Total — those oil […]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency
Posted December 29th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s only we humans that make such a big deal out of midnight on the last day of our measured calendars. Other cultures have or have had different calendars with different new year’s days. Animals, the weather, nature, could care less about our human measurements. Maybe if we […]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, inspiration and reflection, justice
Posted November 30th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The world is ready for big lifestyle changes in response to the human warming of the planet — not everyone, but a large majority of us, this according to the BBC. This is very good news. But it makes all the more woeful the lack of leadership from […]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth