Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The effects of climate change due to global warming (due to human activity) are most often spoken of as a future threat. But that’s only if you have blinders on. From buckling Alaskan communities to the threat of rising waters to island nations to the drowning of New Orleans to [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just want to flag this article from the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia (found by way of the EcoEarth.info/blog) about the fears of scientists that multiple tipping points could be crossed soon catapulting the world towards swift, violent, climate change. It is arguable that this rather benign world [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Take a deep breath and then ponder these words: “We estimate that in the next 25 years the number of people living in water-stressed countries will up from around 800 million to 3 billion people. “We argue that we are heading for an entirely predictable humanitarian catastrophe.” These [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yes, one last thought — but not from me, rather from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Jane Smiley. Her article: The end of the world as we know it? If Americans had started taking the meaning of oil dependence seriously in 1977, when Jimmy Carter asked us to, or [...]