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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: On the day after Christmas in 2004, millions of us sat glued to our TV screens as we watched the horror left by the great tsunami unfold in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and elsewhere. It was one of those great tragedies the magnitude of which the mind and [...]
You’ve heard about the crisis of the bees — bee colony collapse, the mysterious disappearance of millions of bees necessary for the pollination of flowers — for the food we eat, for the gardens we plant. The pollination of crops by bees is responsible for a third of the food produced in the US. So says England’s BBC.
No one cause has been found, rather bunches of possible causes, from global warming to the widespread use of pesticides in industrial agriculture to development that has interfered with their migration patterns to overuse of industrial bees, and more. All of these may be factors. But a new study shows that one major contributor is — air pollution.
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us. Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Our Relationship with the Environment: the Need for [...]