Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[WARNING: This is a very long post-election post. Felt the need to do this.]
When the new Congress is sworn in next January, we will have our best hope in recent memory to open a national conversation on what needs to be done to address the threatening reality of global warming [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yes, one last thought — but not from me, rather from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Jane Smiley. Her article: The end of the world as we know it?
If Americans had started taking the meaning of oil dependence seriously in 1977, when Jimmy Carter asked us to, or had not ridiculed [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I wanted to emphasize something that Nicholas Kristof writes about in the Op-Ed that I included in last night’s post. He describes an aspect of the natural carbon cycle, how carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by the ocean waters, producing carbonic acid, “the same stuff found in soda pop.”
Too much [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It’s Halloween, but who needs the extra fright these days? We have plenty to frighten us, and I, for one, am unnerved by what’s in the print media right now. As recently as a year ago, heck, even a few months ago, we could complain that the mainstream media, with [...]