Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I just get so discouraged by the political culture. It’s not like I find my hope in politics; but what I know is that we have to move politics to get done the things we need to get done. And to do that, we have to bring a new culture [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, cliamte change legislation, climate change, ecological hope, ecology and spirituality, global warming, health care reform, laws of creation, Pope Benedict XVI, rush limbaugh
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sorry for going a week without a post. I am at the deadline for a big project, which I will tell you about soon, and have had trouble keeping up with the site. And while that is still true today, this news that came by way of Facebook compels me [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, climate crisis, copenhagen climate change conference, ecological hope, el nino, global warming, greenhouse gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, la nina, new creation
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
That question gets me in trouble sometimes because it can imply judgment. But, really, what is wrong with us? When we receive information that tells us harm is being done, why isn’t our first reaction to stop doing the harm, instead of ‘how do we cover it up,’ [...]
Tags: aaron million, Australia drought, climate change, colorado sprawl, Food Inc, global warming, GMO seeds, industrial agriculture, monsanto, rBGH, sustainable food production
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
In my book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ a Spirituality of Hope, I focus a chapter on the growing links between our ecological crises and the threat of wars and other forms of social violence. If we think oil has something to do with going to war in [...]
Tags: climate change, cradle of civilization, earth spirituality, ecological overshoot, global warming, growing water scarcity, iraq drought, living beyond the end of the world, loaves and fishes, Tigris and Euphrates, war for oil, water shortages