Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Dealing with a deadline for a project, so I haven’t had time to post yet this week. While I work through that, however, I still follow the significant news regarding our ecological predicament. So I just want to cite some articles that, gathered together, remind us of the fact that [...]
Tags: california groundwater, climate change, colorado river, draining aquifer, drought, global warming, receding northern lakes, western drought
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Breathtaking, these scenes of the fires outside Santa Barbara. Mesmerizing. Awe-striking. Leaves me speechless, without words — and yet I attempt the words, because that is what I do. I write. I give presentations. I talk — to and with others. I try to find words, images, that express what [...]
Tags: california dream, climate change, complex basin fire, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, faith economy ecology, finding beauty in a broken world, global warming, Jesusita fire, living beyond the end of the world, Santa Barbara wildfires, southwest drought, terry tempest williams
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So I’m headed back from the Faith, Economy, Ecology Forum in DC and checking my email. Someone sends this: Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study: World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say, an article in the UK’s The Independent. So much for my relaxing [...]
Tags: carbon budget, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, earth spirituality, faith economy ecology, global warming
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Justice matters. Justice matters hugely. So if we are talking about ecological chaos and destruction — and we are, it is part of our future now — our present, too — then we must talk about justice. We must talk about who is responsible for the damage and therefore who [...]
Tags: asian development bank, carbon neutral, climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, global warming, justice and ecology, maldives threatened with inundation, tuvalu