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 June 18th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The many crises we are facing right now — in energy, food, weather disasters, and increasing economic distress — present us with a unique opportunity for change. We need to grasp this moment not to do more destruction but to reinvent how we live on this planet. We [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted June 16th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Everything we need to live seems to be under siege these days. Water — too much of it (central Midwest), too little of it (the West and Southeast); oil prices in the stratosphere; food prices rising inexorably — because of too much water and the high cost of [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection
Posted June 8th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just a reminder: fostering ecological hope is not about fostering false hope about our situation on the planet right now. It is not about fostering denial or trying to assure us that life can go on as it is without a lot of inconvenience or, to be honest, [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection, population growth