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“In Germany we should focus everything on the phase out of coal.” — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
This May 4th, 2018 discussion is clear-thinking, revealing, and wise. Here are some memorable parts: 1) clear-thinking: “In Germany we should focus everything on the phase out of coal”; 2) revealing: “It’s all about agency, about who could turn this crisis into a solution. [ . . . .] The CEO of Shell once told me ‘The…
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Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 (Stop adding major carbon releases now.)
July 2018: 408.71 ppm July 2017: 407.07 ppm For updates, click here. This is simple. As CO2 rises, the heat-trapping blanket over Earth thickens, and traps more heat. I don’t think humans have a collective “death wish,” so nonviolent political action is needed. 350.org, as the name says, wants this number at 350 ppm, or…
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SOURCE TO SEA: The Columbia River Swim by Christopher Swain
Tonight I watched this excellent 2006 film about ancient and recent Columbia River History, and Christopher Swain’s “13 month swim down it’s 1243 mile length” to alert the public to the need to remove dams, clean up Hanford Nuclear Site, and preserve the river, and salmon, for future people. This film should be required in…
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The Analog Sea Review — AN OFFLINE JOURNAL
I was enjoying this new journal so much, I recently took it instead of my laptop to the coffee shop. It’s the best literary journal I’ve read in years, maybe ever, and I’ve read hundreds from 13 countries. I read it from cover to cover. The excerpt “They Would Always Touch the Earth” by Trebbe…
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Bigger Trouble Now: “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” Published by National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Click here for a 3-minute video about the report. Click here for the report. Click here for Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell’s article about this. Click here for The Guardian article about this. Part of the abstract notes “We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold…
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Trouble Now
This Spiraling Salmon by Jim Demetro is on Salmon Run Bell Tower in Vancouver, WA. I hope future kids don’t ask “What’s that?” This morning, passing my wife, I said, “I almost forgot the most important thing!” She puckered up for a kiss, but I stepped by and grabbed my fishing rod. If climate change doesn’t…
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Oxford Climate Physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert Calls Scientists’ “Hail Mary” Idea “Barking Mad”
Read Joel Achenbach’s August 8, 2018, Washington Post article here. Excerpts include: “[Pierrehumbert added] It’s just a lunatic idea to think [use of ‘sunlight-blocking aerosols’] is a good thing to have in our portfolio of responses to global warming [ . . . . ] If there is a sudden termination, then it’s like being…
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Three Reasons to Fight Climate Breakdown: Wife, Rivers, Fish. What Are Yours?
Thanks to visitors this month from United States, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Ukraine, France, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Romania.
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My Reply to Nathaniel Rich’s NYT Magazine Article “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change”
Sometimes, the best reply is an 11 minute film: Text by Derrick Jensen, Film by Jore Nathaniel Rich quotes: “crimes against humanity” and “moral vision of industry . . . [is] obviously sociopathic”
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19-year-old Victoria Barrett to Scott Wagner, Pennsylvania candidate for governor who called someone like her “Naive”: “You’re the naive one.”
Barrett’s open letter in yesterday’s Guardian is here. Two quotes regarding climate change are: “My understanding is that to be naive is to show a lack of experience, a lack of judgment and a lack of information. You are the naive one. [par break] You don’t have the experience to imagine a life harmed by your…