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17-year-old Hardware Store Worker Gets 118.4 Fahrenheit [48°C] While Wealthy Get A/C in Iraq
David Wallace-Wells’ (The Uninhabitable Earth) Twitter page linked this story today which, according to Richard Hall of independent.co.uk, “offers a troubling glimpse into a future where only the wealthy are equipped to escape the effects of climate change.” Regarding climate injustice against the young and unborn, judges Murguia, Hurwitz, and Staton have not ruled on…
Trees, Ghost Fish, and Dreams? Bristol Bay Watershed’s Feared Pebble [Gold and Copper] Mine May Proceed after EPA Removes Salmon Protection Overruling “Top Scientists” According to CNN
This morning I saw the Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay area may proceed if Alaska Governor Dunleavy gets his wish. If you click the link, you will hear republican, former New Jersey governor, and “under President George W. Bush, [. . .] EPA [Chief]” Christine Todd Whitman say “It’s mind-boggling that it’s still being…
“How It Is [in Greenland]”
August 16, 2019 Update: According to Jon Henley in today’s The Guardian “Donald Trump may have expressed an interest in acquiring Greenland for the US, but Denmark thinks the idea is frankly insane and Greenlanders have pointed out their home is not actually for sale.” The article continues “‘It must be an April Fools’ Day…
“Deep adaptation is just really a set of four questions . . .” — Jem Bendell’s talk at European Commission published May 30, 2019
In my post “Arctic Methane Debate Rages On” (February 7, 2019) I wrote about conflicting views between Jem Bendell, Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK), and Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D, Research Geophysicist at Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, and leader of…
Earthrise film featuring Apollo 8 astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
The climate crisis magnifies my respect for the free 29-minute film Earthrise, from the collection “Top 10 Films to Watch This Summer” noted by globalonenessproject.org Executive Director Cleary Vaughan-Lee as “[our] most-watched films used by teachers from this past school year.” For teachers, here is my community-building prompt after showing the film. Ask students “What have you…
“what matters most is / how well you / walk through the / fire” — Bukowski
If you are just tuning in to the climate crisis, it may be difficult to process “we are already off the cliff” according to reporter Dahr Jamail, winner of the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism for his work in Iraq and the Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media in 2018. It is unknown…
Fishin’ Solution
Yesterday my landlord informed me my hot water heater broke and flooded my apartment so there is mold to the ceiling and water everywhere. Most things I owned had to be taken to the dump. Now tell me the bad news, I thought. It gave me more compassion for families in New Orleans and Houston. To…
(Nonviolently) Sabatoging Oil and Gas Leasing in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
September 16, 2019 Update: Democracy Now! published an interview with Subhankar Banerjee: “Biological Annihilation”: The Danger of Opening Alaska’s ANWR to Oil & Gas Drilling. July 26, 2019 Update: politico.com published “How Science Got Trampled in the Rush to Drill in the Arctic” by Adam Federman with photographs by Nathaniel Wilder and video by Peter…