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 [...]
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 it is immoral. [...]
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 of global [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[NOTE: I'm away a few days and won't post again until next Tuesday.]
It’s that incapacity to feel any connection with our fellow creatures, with Nature, to have any integrity, any sense at all, about the significance of our relationships with the natural world, that seems so scary to me.
It’s [...]