I was interviewed yesterday by the local CBS-affiliated WCAX news show on the topic of how to motivate Vermonters to take action on climate change (while Bernie Sanders and Cornel West were speaking just up the road). What was used of our interview was fairly minimal, so I thought I would share the notes I […]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Vermonters & climate change
Posted in Politics, tagged climate action, climate change, climate motivation, interview, news, small-c conservative values, Vermont, Vermonters, VPIRG, WCAX on November 30, 2018 | 3 Comments »
Denial, incompetence, & depravity
Posted in Politics, tagged circular economy, climate change, climate denialism, climate justice, climate politics, climate science, eco-religion, National Climate Assessment, Paul Krugman, religious conversion, Republican Party, scientific consensus, Trump on November 28, 2018 | 3 Comments »
For many, President Trump’s babbling and incoherent responses to last week’s National Climate Assessment (“I’m too smart to believe it, just look at our air and water and what those other countries are doing…”), following on from his even less coherent responses to California’s wildfire tragedies (“They should rake more, like the Finns”), merely reconfirm that […]
Heads in the sands
Posted in Politics, tagged climate change, Fourth National Climate Assessment, National Climate Assessment, NCA, reports, United Statesm Trump administration on November 25, 2018 | 1 Comment »
It’s not surprising that the Trump administration would wish to bury the nearly 1700-page Fourth National Climate Asessment, Volume 2: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States, a report written by over 300 scientists representing 13 federal agencies, by having it released on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when most Americans are too […]
Latour’s terrestrial project
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bruno Latour, climate change, climate denialism, climate politics, cosmopolitics, Donald Trump, Down to Earth, ecopolitics, political ecology on October 28, 2018 | 2 Comments »
Review of Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018. Down to Earth is in significant part a restatement of Bruno Latour’s theorizing over the last few decades, made more incisive in the light of Trumpism (and other illiberal populisms) and brought to bear specifically on the moment of […]
Skipping an Earthbeat
Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Aaron Wildavsky, Anthropocene, Bill McGuire, climate change, dynamic earth, Earthbeat, earthquakes, environmentalism, fragile Earth, Gaia, geology, Mary Douglas, risk as culture, volcanoes on June 15, 2018 | 4 Comments »
Reading Bill McGuire‘s 2012 book Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, I came across this description of the annual “pulse” called an “Earthbeat,” which is supposedly responsible for Earth’s preference for volcanic eruptions between November and April (also known as “volcano season”): rather like a beating heart, the Earth changes […]
Rant for the day
Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged agency, Anthropocene, climate change, climate justice, climate solutions, Ecozoic, fossil fuel era, global justice, good Anthropocene, sustainability transition on December 14, 2017 | 6 Comments »
Let’s face facts: Life in such cold climates as the one I live in (it was 8°F/-14°C here this morning) would hardly be possible, for us in such numbers as we are, without fossil fuels. The harnessing of fossil fuel energy has enabled tremendous innovation — innovation that, if managed well, could help us get […]
Trump vs. the world
Posted in Politics, tagged climate change, Nicaragua, Paris climate accord, Trump, U.S. politics on June 2, 2017 | 2 Comments »
Trump’s speech on his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord included so many questionable statements, it’s hard to know where to start. Fortunately, others have. Among the better fact-checks are the Washington Post’s (this one and this one), FactCheck.org’s, NPR’s, PolitiFact’s, and the Huffington Post’s. Foreign Policy’s summary (which comes from a partisan source, but […]
Mapping climate change solutions
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged agency, climate change, climate solutions, Paul Hawken on May 12, 2017 | 3 Comments »
In the parallel universe where good news remains possible… A team or 70 researchers from 22 countries and led by Paul Hawken has produced a very interesting analysis of potential climate change solutions. The analysis, released last month as a book called Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, “maps, measures, models, and describes the […]
“We interrupt this programming…”
Posted in Politics, tagged Aleksandar Hemon, catastrophe, CIA, classified documents, climate change, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, hope, Inauguration Day, ontological destruction, Politics, William Connolly, X-Files on January 19, 2017 | 12 Comments »
Not that this blog has been very active recently, but with Inauguration Day upon us, a little reflection on our situation seems warranted… So, here’s where I see us. If a Clinton-led Democratic administration would have brought to power a coalition of neoliberal plutocrats and social and environmental progressives (with the balance probably tilting towards […]
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