Posted June 20th, 2008 in
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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 [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection
Posted June 18th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The many crises we are facing right now — in energy, food, weather disasters, and increasing economic distress — present us with a unique opportunity for change. We need to grasp this moment not to do more destruction but to reinvent how we live on this planet. We [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted May 31st, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just think what it would mean if crucial information about dangers to our lives and well-being were kept from us. Of course, this is done all the time — things like environmental pollution, food contamination, etc. — we deal with realities like this all the time. We know [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, justice
Posted May 28th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The Bush administration has been ridiculed for so long for challenging the science behind climate change, and then for its efforts to undermine international efforts to reduce the offending carbon dioxide emissions, that the very fact that our government would issue a stark, scary report on the impacts [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions