Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: this is a long article, perhaps for your weekend reading.] Well, the terms of the debate over our future regarding global warming and energy are being set with ever greater clarity. It is a debate over our future, period — as in whether or not we have [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Exxon Mobil’s CEO, Rex W. Tillerson, offered his wisdom on global warming and climate change in a speech before a gathering of oil and gas industry leaders on Tuesday — his first contribution to the conversation following release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Basically, he said [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Wanted to share this story, because it is emblematic of our problem — and of our ecological hope. TXU Corp., the big Texas utility company, is planning to invest $10 billion in coal-fired power plants to provide power to the state’s rapidly growing population. Texas is pretty weak [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In last week’s NT Times Science section, which comes out each Tuesday, the paper’s now-retired ‘lead reporter on climate change,’ William K. Stevens, wrote an essay in which he offers his own poignant reflections on the now-overwhelming scientific consensus that human-caused greenhouse gases are the main cause of [...]