Posts Tagged ‘pew research center’

My people are a problem

Posted July 10th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 6 Comments

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 sustainable growth [...]

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Climate change: oh, the work we have to do!

Posted January 24th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

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 problem.  The Pew Research [...]

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