Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Obstacles to addressing our ecological crisis in any significant way are strewn all through the U.S. culture. We have a president who gets the problem to some extent, at least on climate, but says some stuff that makes me cringe; for example, “There is no contradiction between environmentally sustainable growth [...]
Tags: climate change, ecological crisis, ecological economics, fundamentalism and evolution, global climate disruption, global warming, obama on the environment, pew research center
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Look, I’m as relieved as anyone that Barack Obama is our president and I think he is a thoughtful and serious guy, though we here have always known that he was a centrist, not a true progressive.
That said, we have to get serious about challenging him on some of his [...]
Tags: climate change, dirty coal, ecology, ecosystems under threat, global warming, mountaintop coal mining, mtr, obama environmental policy, robert f. kennedy jr
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
First of all, an apology for not posting for a week to all you fans who have missed us! I have been in a very intense family time, as we go through an enormous transition of letting go our family home 0f 61 years. Some readers remember that my Mother [...]
Tags: climate change, climate change impacts in the u.s., climate legislation, global warming, thomas friedman, U.S. global change research program
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If you want, and in a hurry.
If you want a liveable world, if you want your kids to grow up not in catastrophe but rather in difficulty that contains hope for a future, live differently –
–if you want, as we said in our previous post, and in a hurry, if [...]
Tags: climate change, David Orr, earth day, earth spirituality, EarthSpirit Rising, global warming, Jane Lubchenco, John P. Holdren, noaa, United States Global Change Research Program