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Blog readers may recall my February 7, 2019, post “Arctic Methane Debate Rages On,” and my October 28, 2017, post “‘If we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe.’ — President Niinistö of Finland in Joint Press Conference with President Trump, August 28, 2017.” In 2015 Bill Nye made a 3-minute video of this methane threat with Arnold Schwarzenegger…

JOANNA MACY: Climate Crisis As Spiritual Path from Old Dog Documentaries on Vimeo. (Used with permission.) In the above video Rainer Maria Rilke translator, eco-philosopher, and 50-year activist Joanna Macy says “We’ve been thinking that we are consumers. [ . . . . ] all the time imprisioned in this shrunken sense of self. And now…

I agree with Don Sampson of Northwest Tribal Salmon Alliance, “We’re in a salmon crisis. [ . . . . ] They’re suffocating. They’re weakened. [ . . . . ] We need cold, clean water, and we’ve got to take the Snake River Dams down to make that happen.” Please share. 

For many years people asked me for good climate news, and I expect this to increase with the haunting new sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Regarding this, I like Mary Annaïse Heglar’s tweet she gave me permission to repost January 2020: “My wish for 2020 is for people to stop asking…

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897-1898 –Paul Gauguin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons August 5, 2021 Update — My favorite recent climate article is by Thom Hartmann in Salon “Civilization-ending climate change is knocking on the door — unless we act now” featuring Dr. Jason Box who “Last…

This is a story of redemption.  I know that word can mean different things to different people but sometimes redemption shows itself in strange places.  Sometimes a person’s pain can be redeemed. Sometimes the anguish we’re carrying might actually be the very thing that opens our eyes to something disarming and unexpected and transformational…   When…

Used with permission of marine biologist Chris Harley. Kabir wrote, “people won’t wake up — Not until they feel death’s club inside their skulls.” It’s a good quote for many facing climate reality that “killed or harmed three billion animals” in Australia according to a July 28, 2020 bbc.com news article, and “More than one billion marine…

July 18, 2021 Update: Thank you to the 127 visitors from Myanmar (Burma) yesterday. The “Translate” tool in the lower right frame offers these languages:  Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian   Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch   Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French…

A September/October 1977 Mother Jones article by Mark Dowie noted “For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold [Pinto] cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.” An October 17, 2008, The Spokesman-Review article “The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’” added “Critics argued that because the Pinto did not have a true…

Kevin Anderson is to some global leaders and many academics what Tiresias was to King Oedipus in the Noble Prize Summit — OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 27 performed by Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Frankie Faison, David Strathairn, Corey Hawkins, and Nobel Prize-winning scientists, including Elizabeth Blackburn and Harold Varmus among others. In another performance…