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CHESC 2018
I enjoyed presenting today at the annual CA Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC) on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The session was “Sustainability Through a Humanities Lens,” and also featured Kristin Hogue, Student Engagement Fellow, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative, and Juan E. Campo, PhD, Professor, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara. The moderator was David Braun, Professor…
Remembering Celilo Falls
Some say nearby She Who Watches pictograph is about looking over her children. Others say it is a death mask about diseases brought by settlers. Maybe it will take tearing down upriver dams to get young people to stop killing themselves. This poem/film is from my forthcoming book Carbonfish Blues (Fomite, 2018), and is about…
Climate Scientists Expressing Nightmare/Anger/Fear/Gratitude/Other Feelings
There are typed versions below letters. Professor Stefan Rahmstorf Head of Earth System Analysis Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Nightmare) Professor Corey Bradshaw Director of Ecological Modelling The University of Adelaide (Anger) Anthony Richardson Climate Change Ecologist The University of Queensland (Exasperated. Frustrated. Anxious. Perplexed. Dumbfounded. Distressed. Upset. Annoyed. Angry. Infuriated.) Professor Andrew Pitman Director of…
Mark Twain Saw
August 10, 2018, Update from Yale Climate Connections: “But now, Antarctic glaciers are losing ice faster than they are gaining it [according to Hannes Konrad, part of a University of Leeds team studying this exact issue]. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.” Mark Twain wrote prophesying Rep.…
Time for Community-building, Preparation, Resiliency, Family
Think Climate Change. Thanks to ASLE for posting updates about Hawk on Wire.
Dahr Jamail: Abrupt Climate Disruption & Navigating An Unstable Future
August 20, 2018, Update from Dahr Jamail: “I’ve spoken to prestigious scientists both on and off the record who believe that sooner rather than later, global population will be reduced to around 1 billion humans.” (at truthout.org)
weather.com: “Bering Sea Missing Almost 200,000 Square Miles of Ice [30 days early], Plunging Into Record Lows”; The Seattle Times: “Scientists were stunned.”
Watch video here, and read The Seattle Times article here.