Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Obstacles to addressing our ecological crisis in any significant way are strewn all through the U.S. culture. We have a president who gets the problem to some extent, at least on climate, but says some stuff that makes me cringe; for example, “There is no contradiction between environmentally [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday’s juxtaposition of two articles in the NY Times was distressing and revealing, buried on page 13, two headlines side-by-side: Environment Blamed in Western Tree Deaths, by Mireya Navarro. Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns, by one of my favorite writers, Andrew Revkin. We have a [...]
Tags: andrew rivkin, climate change, global warming, living beyond the end of the world, pew research center, shishmaref, tuvalu