[scroll down homepage to view sobering video from Greenpeace] Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We insist over and over again that hope must be based in reality or else it is false. When we speak of ecological hope, we speak of something urgent and difficult – we must face the extent of the [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The National Academy of Sciences [NAS] just released a study showing that the environmental costs in the US as a result of the burning of fossil fuels is some $120 billion a year. The main cause is air pollution leading to premature deaths. Okay, the dollar figure is [...]
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