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 [...]
Tags: climate change, ecological crisis, ecological economics, fundamentalism and evolution, global climate disruption, global warming, obama on the environment, pew research center
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 [...]
Tags: andrew rivkin, climate change, global warming, living beyond the end of the world, pew research center, shishmaref, tuvalu