Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
On this Memorial Day Monday, the New York Times front page was unusually moving, angering, powerful. First was the image, a photograph that moved me to tears. It could be an icon to the insanity and cruelty of this war and those who got us into — people, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
A few days ago, I posted about the British initiative to get global warming/climate change considered in the United Nations as an issue of international security pertinent to the agenda of the UN Security Council. Most countries, including the US, opposed the move, saying this was an issue more [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Visitors to this blog know that we have pointed out frequently some of the impacts of climate change that are threatening, and will threaten, habitats that support life, or change the life that is there (e.g., the disappearance of the sugar maple tree from New England before the end of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I like to mention particularly good books that I’m reading, and I have just begun a fascinating, if sobering, one — The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Homer-Dixon is director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and political [...]