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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…

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…