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There is no longer ANY TIME TO WASTE. The climate is deteriorating in real time. We are not paying en It felt triumphant! But since then? The Amazon is burning.
In September of 2014, we in the hundreds of thousands to call for climate action. The full panoply of activism was represented – folks in polar bear suits - Save the Whales delegations – LGBTQIA marchers - clergy - Girl Scouts - ragin’ grannies - beekeepers to riverkeepers, in baby carriers and with walkers, using mobility devices or strutting on stilts: we flooded the streets and we raised our v
11/17/2021
Brace yourself - We Will Not Be "Getting Back to Normal" “Back to normal.” What a seductive phrase. It feels like there has been a collective yearning for a return to “normal” since Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College back in 2016. Those of us on the left yearned for a return to “normal” from Trump’s...
11/15/2021
Anyone Else Have Scorpion Attacks on Their 2021 BINGO Card? Dateline, Aswan, Egypt. The headline: Scorpion stings kill three and injure hundreds more after storms hit southern Egypt A snip from the piece: A spokesman for the health ministry told Al-Ahram news agency that rain had flushed scorpions and snakes...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2061015/-Blood-On-Their-Hands-Exxon-Knew-in-1959
Exxon knew. They all knew.
What do we do now?
10/12/2021
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/4/2055762/-Cartoon-Over-the-cliff
Cartoon: Over the cliff! As always, if � you enjoy this work, please help keep it sustainable by joining my weekly subscription newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can choose to have it delivered to your inbox or sign up ...
10/11/2021
WINTER IS COMING!
That's supposed to sound portentous. I never watched Game of Thrones, though.
Climate Brief: Winter is Coming Having never seen an episode of Game of Thrones, I must shamefacedly admit that to me, “winter is coming” conjures up images of chilly sleet, bracing rain, low-scudding clouds, and the opportunity to bedeck my house with candles and masses of green...
10/04/2021
No more "blah, blah, blah." Just done with all the happy green talk from politicians. They've all learned to throw "climate" into their normal talking points, and I don't believe that most of them actually deeply understand what we need to do, and how FAST we need to do it.
Climate Brief: I'm With Greta. "Blah Blah Blah" Isn't Cutting It. We must DEMAND more. In a speech at a Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, last Tuesday, climate change activist and all-around badass Greta Thunberg gave voice to what many of us have been thinking. Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net...
Little bit of good news today...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/29/2055169/-Dateline-Queensland-Australia-Control-of-160-000-Hectares-of-Land-Returned-to-Indigenous-People
Beware the siren song of greenwashing.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/27/2054704/-Beware-False-Hope-The-Siren-Song-of-Greenwashing
09/20/2021
red alert. This is terrifying.
Climate Crisis RED ALERT: A Horrifying Stat Just Published I don’t normally diary more than once a day —�in fact, I tend to go months without posting anything here —�but this just showed up in my Twitter feed () and I was shocked. No,�...
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