{"id":44789,"date":"2019-03-26T07:42:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44789"},"modified":"2019-03-26T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:42:22","slug":"tomgram-frida-berrigan-a-mother-swept-away-by-climate-change%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44789","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it\u2019s happening. It really is. And I\u2019m not just thinking about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Green New Deal and the support<\/a> it\u2019s getting from Democratic presidential candidates or the controversy<\/a> it\u2019s generating. I\u2019m also thinking about Washington State Governor Jay Inslee\u2019s entry into the 2020 presidential race on a platform that boils down to a climate-change crusade<\/a>. I\u2019m thinking about the way Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — not your usual definition of a radical thinker or activist — is now planning<\/a> to make global warming a key issue in the 2020 elections. I\u2019m thinking about the fact that some Democrats suddenly are convinced the subject will be a winner<\/a> on the campaign trail. I’m thinking about the fact that a book on climate change, David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth<\/em><\/a>, has just hit the bestseller list<\/a>.  I\u2019m thinking about the strike-for-the-future movement, all those Generation Z kids that TomDispatch <\/em>regular<\/a> Frida Berrigan writes about today who have started<\/a> a wave of global protests about the increasingly degraded world they\u2019re likely to inherit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019m also thinking about the fact that every new study of climate change seems to offer worse news about the fate of the planet — greater potential temperature rises<\/a>; more drought and famine<\/a>; larger population displacements<\/a>; faster-melting Antarctic<\/a> and Greenland<\/a> ice sheets leading to radically rising sea levels; more unexpected climate feedback loops<\/a> that will only heighten the ravages of global warming; record levels<\/a> of greenhouse gases still entering the atmosphere; and, most recently, the unexpected phenomena of heat waves<\/a> not on land (yes, they\u2019re coming, too, and they\u2019re likely to be devastating<\/a>) but in the planet\u2019s oceans that could, among other things, significantly reduce<\/a> fish populations and so humanity\u2019s food supplies yet more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change Yes, it\u2019s happening. It really is. And I\u2019m not just thinking about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Green New Deal and the support it\u2019s getting from Democratic presidential candidates or the controversy it\u2019s generating. I\u2019m also thinking about Washington State Governor Jay Inslee\u2019s entry into the 2020 presidential race on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,22097,7413],"class_list":["post-44789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-frida-berrigan","tag-tomdispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44790,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789\/revisions\/44790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}