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Climate Resilience Hubs, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Abrahm Lustgarten Reports “present pathway [ . . . . ] could lead to 2 billion people falling outside of the climate niche within just the next eight years, and 3.7 billion doing so by 2090”
Erin Stone reported July 31, 2023, at laist.com/news “How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency.” Her article noted, “In 2021, the state [of California] launched the Community Resilience Centers program to support and speed up resilience hub efforts [ . . . . ] [It was] originally allocated $160…
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Heat Records and Retired Judge
Heat Records Various sources noted Phoenix, Arizona broke a record for consecutive days over 110 Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) at 23 days, and counting. (Update: npr.org later reported this went on for a “31-day streak.”) It was also noted the previous record was 18 days in 1974. These heatwaves are a global problem. July 5, 2023…
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Bridge at the End of the World – New and Selected [Climate] Poems Won 2023 Blue Light Book Award
I’m grateful my new book of climate poems Bridge at the End of the World won a 2023 Blue Light Book Award. An ecopoem celebrates the nonhuman world, and part of humans that is anciently connected to that in our DNA, pre-industrial journeys, and unconscious. Ignoring nonhuman species, or otherwise devaluing them, harms the self, family, society, and…
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1939 “Voyage of the Damned” and Climate Migration
The 1939 “Voyage of the Damned” is timely due to past, current, and future responses to climate migrants. Amy Tikkanen’s March 28, 2019 article “MS St. Louis” at britannica.com noted, “May–June 1939 [ . . . ] Cuba, the United States, and Canada denied entry to its more than 900 Jewish passengers, most of whom had fled…
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Two Climate Solutions and U. S. Supreme Court Decision
I agree with those who say it’s wrong to just document climate disasters without offering real solutions. I offered one March 31, 2019 in my post “Solution to Reducing Climate Change is Purple,” but, as far as I know, it was never taken seriously. Dr. Ye Tao (RF Alumnus of Rowland Institute at Harvard) offered…
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Climate Bear and Rowboat
Extrapolations — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ In the above trailer Edward Norton’s character Jonathan Chopin says “I think it helps to look at climate change like a bear. The whole planet’s been wrestling with the bear for decades. So far, the bear’s been kicking our ass.” This reminds me of the end of my…
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March Thoughts in 2023
Trees and flowers’ early blooms remind us of the Creative Force in the universe, and real self in each human, and how many people lost touch with both. Prayer, poetry, meditation, nature walks, honest conversation with partners or close friends make paths to those two realities healing many in appearance-addicted societies like the U. S.. Regarding…
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Western Washington State in Fall is Alive with Trees, Fish, and Dreams
Western Washington State in fall is alive with trees, fish, and dreams, worth protecting if one has time and energy.
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“Circus” COPS and Civil Society “Clowns”
Today Terry Slavin at reuters.com quoted Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of The Club of Rome, “I fear that COPs are becoming little more than a circus, with the petrostates as the ringmasters and us – civil society, progressive business and financial institutions, heads of state and negotiators from countries wanting climate action – are the clowns.…
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Man Denies Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (c. 1821) by John Martin John Martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This poem satirically responds to elected officials who believe the climate crisis is a hoax, even with the ultraconservative IPCC’s 2019 dire warnings. I recall Jonathan Swift cared deeply about starvation in Ireland in 1729 so he wrote “A…