In times of momentous change, this reflection to help us not lose heart.
“In the same way that we got into this mess incrementally, each of us playing our part (however unwillingly or in ignorance), we can start right where we are to shift the whole by working incrementally to change our role within that whole. “
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Carbon dioxide levels just reached their highest levels in 800,000 years, maybe in millions of years. We are living within a different planet now. We will not save ourselves from crisis anymore, but we can still decide how bad it’s going to get – and what kind of world we want to create as the old unravels.
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Fostering Ecological Hope Reflections on Culture and Meaning by Margaret Swedish I don’t mean to be dramatic with that headline. We are seeing the end of a world, the familiar one in which most of us, at least those of us over, say, 30, were born and lived most of our lives. This storm is […]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Have you seen the scenes from Bangkok? This is a shattering event for one of the world’s major urban areas. [Video link] I can’t say this one unique event is due to global warming, yet, something inside tells us what we already know or intuit – these rain […]
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