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How to communicate the climate emergency
How to communicate the climate emergency Download guide as PDF What are effective ways of engaging people in conversation about the gathering climate crisis and the need for an emergency response? Let’s start with some key content: 1. Urgency and courage The Earth is already too hot: we are in danger now, not just […]
A Child at World’s End
A Child at World’s End “I don’t want to live in a world without cheetahs, Mom.” Seamus loves cheetahs and what’s not to love — unless you are a Thomson’s gazelle? Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on the planet, formidable predators, sleek, saucy looking, and they even have spots. My six-year-old boy can’t imagine a […]
Charting a Jagged Course Through the Apocalypse
Charting a Jagged Course Through the Apocalypse Photo Source NASA’s Earth Observatory | CC BY 2.0 “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” -Economist Herbert Stein Those who live in the reaches of the Arctic Circle tend to convey the same humbling lesson: Mother Nature calls the shots and survival depends upon preparing […]
The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn’t care
The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn’t care Trump’s team used last week to sneak in disastrous, linked policies on climate change and child refugee camps The Trump years are a fantasy land where we pretend we can go on living precisely as in the past, unwilling even to substitute […]
South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change
South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florence’s fury when the storm made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later, the state was still contending with historic flooding. Flooded house in Socastee, […]
U.S. government embraces climate catastrophe, but is it a ‘crisis’?
U.S. government embraces climate catastrophe, but is it a ‘crisis’? The United States government has now officially embraced climate change as a catastrophe in the making. Only it contends that the catastrophe is now inevitable no matter what humans do…and so, we should do nothing at all since whatever we do won’t matter much. That, […]
What Comes Next
What Comes Next Photo Source Doc Searls | CC BY 2.0 There are no hidden secrets about anthropogenic global warming. It’s everywhere, wherever one looks! After all, the People’s Climate March (311,000) in 2014 organized by 350.org (Bill McKibben) was one of the biggest rallies ever held in NYC. Also, worldwide exposure was ubiquitously on […]
How the world breaks
How the world breaks Stan and Paul Cox describe the destructive force of nature in the context of climate change In May 2006, an eruption of mud began to flow in Sdoarjo Indonesia. With the eruption, 40,000 villagers were displaced and 20 were killed. About a decade after the disaster began, these statues were placed […]
An Unforeseen Climate Beast Awakens!
An Unforeseen Climate Beast Awakens! Photo Source Peter Shanks | CC BY 2.0 East Antarctica is a big-time global warming player. Nothing is comparable. It is the world heavyweight, and nothing can impact the world with so much calamitous clout. As such, it would be a huge mistake to discount its capability to turn mean-spirited, […]
Florence is not the ‘new normal’. We’ve destroyed normal forever.
Florence is not the ‘new normal’. We’ve destroyed normal forever. If each new decade brings its own unique, ever-worsening climate disasters, there won’t be any new norms for a long, long time. HURRICANE FLORENCE FLOODS A LOCAL BUSINESS ON SEPTEMBER 16 IN WILMINGTON, NC. CREDIT: MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES You’ve probably seen the term “new normal” […]
How radical municipalism can go beyond the local
How radical municipalism can go beyond the local Fighting for more affordable, accessible places to live means fighting for a less carbon-intensive future by the Symbiosis Research Collective Climate change, global finance, the neoliberal state: today’s crises require action on a big scale. And yet fighting for local democracy is – perhaps counter-intuitively – […]
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety “You cannot have a healthy society that is scared.” A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD IS SEEN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A HOUSE AS HE WADES THROUGH FLOOD WATERS FOR A WELLNESS CHECK ON CITIZENS WHO CHOOSE TO STAY IN THEIR HOME IN THE AFTERMATH OF […]
Is Paris 2015 Already Underwater?
Is Paris 2015 Already Underwater? Photo Source WeMeanBusiness | CC BY 2.0 The Paris Agreement of 2015 remarkably brought together all of the nations of the world, except for the United States after Trump cancelled, in a concerted effort to combat the dire consequences of global warming, which on a worst-worst-worst case basis could lead […]
When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency
When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency Participants in this week’s Darebin Climate Emergency conference in Melboure. Photo: John Englart People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society’s lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat […]
California goes carbon negative
California goes carbon negative Last week Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to cut California’s electricity sector emissions , which account for about 16% of the state’s total emissions, to zero by 2045. But an Executive Order he signed on the same day calls for 100% of California’s totalemissions not only to go to zero […]
