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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]