Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The Bush administration has been ridiculed for so long for challenging the science behind climate change, and then for its efforts to undermine international efforts to reduce the offending carbon dioxide emissions, that the very fact that our government would issue a stark, scary report on the impacts of global [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[NOTE: I'm away a few days and won't post again until next Tuesday.]
It’s that incapacity to feel any connection with our fellow creatures, with Nature, to have any integrity, any sense at all, about the significance of our relationships with the natural world, that seems so scary to me.
It’s [...]
You’ve heard about the crisis of the bees — bee colony collapse, the mysterious disappearance of millions of bees necessary for the pollination of flowers — for the food we eat, for the gardens we plant. The pollination of crops by bees is responsible for a third of the food produced in the US. So says England’s BBC.
No one cause has been found, rather bunches of possible causes, from global warming to the widespread use of pesticides in industrial agriculture to development that has interfered with their migration patterns to overuse of industrial bees, and more. All of these may be factors. But a new study shows that one major contributor is — air pollution.
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us.
Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
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