Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: There is so much disturbing news that I could write a very long essay just trying to sum it all up. Scientists have found a direct relation between the Moscow heatwave and drought and the Pakistan floods. Ames IA is under water, worst flooding in the city’s history, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How else to explain events such as this: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders BP to stop using a certain chemical dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP continues to use it anyway. Or this: because the world is disturbed by images of an oil-fouled sea and [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: That question gets me in trouble sometimes because it can imply judgment. But, really, what is wrong with us? When we receive information that tells us harm is being done, why isn’t our first reaction to stop doing the harm, instead of ‘how do we cover it up,’ [...]