Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Longish post; couldn't help myself. Feedback welcome] I’m getting pretty worried for my country, even frightened, to be perfectly honest. Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, I found myself paying more attention to the cultural discourse and the more I listen the more I believe that we are witnessing, [...]
Tags: decline of middle class, earth's lakes warming, foreclosures, global economy, greenhouse gases record levels, plutocracy, plutonomy, recession, restructuring of capitalism, rich getting richer, unemployment, wealth concentration, world meteorological organization
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Think we’re moving out of recession? They tell us that to cover over the fact that we are not, actually, moving out of recession, or that this is just a particularly deep and lasting recession that will end one day, maybe in 2011. But in reality, much, much [...]
Tags: corporate debt coming due, debt economy, ecological economics, ecological hope, economic collapse, extreme inequality, gap between rich and poor, growth economy, recession
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [I GO TO ST. LOUIS THIS WEEK FOR A COUPLE OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, SO THIS WILL BE MY ONLY POST UNTIL MONDAY. THANKS FOR VISITING.] Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Hope we all had a little quiet time to think about those things for which we ought [...]
Tags: black friday, cultural pathology, ecological crisis, ecological hope, meaning of being human, recession