Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Except that it is. This story made the news last week: An island disputed by India and Bangladesh for three decades has drowned in rising seas. Problem solved. “What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said oceanographer Sugata [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for going a week without a post. I am at the deadline for a big project, which I will tell you about soon, and have had trouble keeping up with the site. And while that is still true today, this news that came by way of Facebook [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How’s that title for a little alliteration? Try to say it ten times real fast. Okay, but seriously: sometimes it feels like my main job here is to grab up pieces of the picture, fragments that come from this source and that, and then put them together into [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Let me just say this one more time because we need to understand this: as the Earth warms, the atmosphere holds more energy. That is one of the things that warm air does. It’s why thunderstorms are more prevalent on a hot humid summer day. As global warming [...]