On the Edge

More articles and reports about Earth Changes. Acidification of oceans from increased absorption of carbon dioxide has reached levels that interfere with production of shells on lifeforms that are at the base of vast marine food webs; release of methane-rich cathrates during glacial and tundra thawing are expected; continued degradation of forests and grasslands rages on, imperiling Earth's large carbon sinks. Read below about acidification of oceans:

Growing Acidity of Oceans May Kill Corals By Juliet Eilperin
The escalating level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic, government and independent scientists say. They warn that, by the end of the century, the trend could decimate coral reefs and creatures that underpin the sea's food web. To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/04/AR2006070400772.html?referrer=emailarticle


Our prevailing economic and political worldview results in the U.S. contributing the biggest impact per capita on the biosphere-a commons of air, water and land systems shared by the entire community of life. Our values, our Constitution, does not include the Earth and her communities of life under its protection. It is valueless in our principles of governance. This is a critical point we need to reevaluate.

For a country that purports to follow Christian ethics, what happened to the Law given to Moses? Natural Law. A very hopeful sign from religous communities shows some of us may be reexamining the Law:

Ecological efforts unite faiths in common cause. More than a decade ago on an Aegean island, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians made a startling proposition: That pollution and other attacks on the environment could be considered sins.

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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/14976527.htm
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The environmental alarms have been screaming for decades now but so many of us are deaf. The question is "How can we bravely face the truth of our times?"

Hopefully we will face it together with grace and humility and a lot of determination to save all we can, and we will gain understanding about how to govern ourselves more ecologically. I live in that hope and intention.

~Susan