Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Copenhagen has center stage for a couple of weeks – for good or ill, right? — hosting the international conference on climate change. I resist those who say that the planet lives or dies by Copenhagen. If that’s the case, get ready for death. But it’s not [...]
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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I have so much on my mind today. The drivers behind all these dramatic changes in our world — changing climate, collapsing economies, millions of newly unemployed, millions of home foreclosures, ecosystem depletion, changes in behaviors of species, of flora and fauna, rapid population growth, overconsumption, and on [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This is a guest post from Dr. Richard Schwartz, a founder of Jewish Vegetarians of North America. We don't usually promote films as blog posts, but we consider the expansion of industrial livestock agriculture to be one of the biggest threats to the well-being of the planet. In [...]