Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This will be our one post for the week. Following the Labor Day holiday, we’ll be back to our 2-3 posts per week pace. Lots to think about, but there is nothing like a fire of historic proportions to focus the mind.
Regular visitors know that we have written several times [...]
Tags: air pollution, american geophysical union, california wildfires, China incinerators, climate change, ecological overshoot, global warming, Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Who needs bad news on a late summer weekend? It is deliciously cool here along Lake Michigan, like early October. Summer will be back, but this brief interlude is one of those moments that reminds us of seasonal changes to come, that embedded within this August cool spell is anticipation [...]
Tags: altered planet, balance of life, climate change, deforestation, ecological hope, global warming, greenhouse gases, mato grosso, mercury contamination in fish, methane release
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yes, that’s what’s happening. While this stupid debate rages about whether or not climate is changing because of human-induced warming of the atmosphere, or will change, or how soon the change will come about — climate is changing. And some of the effects are already severe.
In this week’s edition of [...]
Tags: altered planet, australia, climate change, drought, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, persistent drought, Southwest U.S., tropical zone expanding
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I just get so discouraged by the political culture. It’s not like I find my hope in politics; but what I know is that we have to move politics to get done the things we need to get done. And to do that, we have to bring a new culture [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, cliamte change legislation, climate change, ecological hope, ecology and spirituality, global warming, health care reform, laws of creation, Pope Benedict XVI, rush limbaugh