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October 2021, Near a Washington State River On my truck gate, pulling up waders,branches snap in morning dark as a cougar stalks me. When it gets closer, I re-enter and wait untila fellow angler arrives and we descend in canyon. We split at two trails, and the cougar follows me.I toss rocks and yell at…

Donated to Washington State University, Vancouver Library Recent words of climate desperation are not encouraging. Jeff Goodell’s excellent 10/1/21 Rolling Stone article “Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet” noted, “As climate journalist Amy Westervelt put it with characteristic aplomb: ‘The change these motherfuckers are signing us up for is so many times more radical than any climate policy ever…

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…