Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry to scream at you with that headline, but this really needs our attention. You probably know that there are folks on Capitol Hill that are trying to get a fat slice of your tax dollars into the coal industry to develop liquified coal. Their argument is that, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Does it hurt yet? Apparently not enough to keep us off the roads this weekend. I guess plans have been made, so what are you gonna do? So we have hit all time high gasoline prices, even adjusting for inflation. And this time, it ain’t going down any [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday we presented examples of two different visions of our global climate crisis and the way to respond to it — one being denial, subterfuge, and self-interest, the other being fully facing the crisis and taking responsibility for it. Then I visit the Washington Post online this morning [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: If getting the reality of global warming and climate change into the consciousness of this society is a reason for hope, then we are certainly making progress. No fewer than 5 articles in the NY Times today covered one aspect or another. The most poignant, perhaps, is the [...]