Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So, then, why don’t we wake up?
It’s like those alarm clocks that keep getting louder and louder the more they are ignored. When they annoy us, we hit the button, but a few minutes later, it starts all over again.
Our ecological crisis. Alarms going off all over [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Have you seen the fires at Big Sur? CNN has been reporting them all day. I’m headed out that way in a couple of weeks. Was really looking forward to it, too. I have been along the Pacific Coast highway a couple of times in my [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Threatened, endangered, abused, battered, exploited, degraded — all those things, yes.
But also – so beautiful, this planet of ours.
My niece sent me this photo — a rainbow over the Chicago lake shore at Lincoln Park:
Wow, no? It’s a “wow!” for sure.
So much difficult news, so many concerns I could [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
One person reading my book commented that what I’m saying sounds like, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!! Except that it’s really falling.”
That’s how some see the scenario laid out in the book (Living Beyond the ‘End of the World’) in the context of this year’s weather disasters, [...]