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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…

It would be wonderful to discover NASA scientist James Hansen’s June 23, 1988 warning to the U. S. Congress about climate change, and his 2016 video “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms [ . . .],” were wrong. I could change this fishing/climate blog into just a fishing blog. I could write about many other social…

My all-time best fishing buddy was my second cousin Gary Starbuck who lived in Kamath Falls, Oregon, so I made visits there the past five years.  I had dinner with ranching families, and found them hardworking, honest, with an uncommon joy in life.  So, my thoughts and prayers go to the thousands in Klamath Falls,…

Thanks to Alaskan Writer Ken Waldman who endorsed my new book for this: http://massreview.org/node/9564 Here are “General Guidelines.” In a related matter, one of my top posts is “Schellnhuber: ‘Rising Seas Could Affect 1.4 Billion People by 2060′” with a 2017 film trailer for Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow about “massive human migration.”

It has been widely reported Harlan Howard defined country music as “three chords and the truth,” and it could also be a motto for the climate emergency. In 2019 Johan Rockström, one of the climate scientists I most respect, claimed he was misquoted by Gaia Vince’s May 18, 2019 article in The Guardian regarding effects of a 4…

I watched most of the first day of President Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit, and participated in the Noble Prize Summit — OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 26/27/28. There were some tech glitches in both, but overall I’m glad I watched/attended.  I respect U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s visit to China before President Biden’s…

April 30, 2021 Update — Yesterday apnews.com reported “California officials will again truck [‘more than 16.8 million’] young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the state’s Central Valley agricultural region to the Pacific Ocean because projected river conditions show that the waterways the fish use to travel downstream will be historically low and warm due to…

April 20, 2021 Update — According to dw.com in Germany, President of Russia Vladimir Putin will attend U. S. President Joe Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit. Sustraitstimes.com in Singapore reported Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping will also attend. It was widely reported U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has been in China trying…

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. A 2018 article in The Guardian by Patrick Barkham noted “[Dr. Mayer Hillman] is anxious we are not side-tracked by his best-known research, which challenged the supremacy of the car.”   The article quoted Hillman, “With doom ahead, making a case for cycling as the primary mode of transport is almost irrelevant…