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Climate Action Week: What to watch for

Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 16, 2019 | 3 Comments »

As people around the world prepare for Global Climate Strike Week (Sept. 20-27) and for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City on Sept. 23, here are some thoughts and sources to help us think about what’s at stake, what’s possible, and what we can do. This blog may be updated as needed, […]

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So, here we are…

Posted in AnthropoScene, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , , on September 8, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, what a reaction the article described here has gotten… This version includes a follow-up comment below. Jonathan Franzen’s “What If We Stopped Pretending?” articulates an important point about hope and hopelessness in the face of climate change. Franzen suggests that an “all-out war on climate change” no longer makes sense because the scenario for […]

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Denial, incompetence, & depravity

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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Rant for the day

Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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In search of silver linings

Posted in Academe, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2016 | 8 Comments »

So, Donald Trump will be president of the United States and both Congress and Senate will be dominated by Republicans. Environmentalists and social justice activists, almost universally, find this idea horrifying. But there are silver linings to be found amidst the wreckage. Let’s explore a few of them.

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The I=PAT of mass murder, and its antithesis — joy

Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

Just as I=PAT serves as a handy, if problematic, formula for thinking about the causes of environmental impact, so I think there is a similar formula underlying tragedies like the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. It goes something like this: Hate + Technology + Distress = Carnage/Chaos

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Following the (in)action in Paris, updated

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on December 15, 2015 | 5 Comments »

This article has been revised since it was first posted. It consists of a list of useful sources providing ongoing coverage of, and initial post-conference reactions to, the COP21 conference and mobilizations in response to it. Please suggest any other helpful sources and links in the “Comments.” (Previously suggested links have been added and the comments removed.)  Originally published: Dec. […]

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Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?

Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on December 13, 2015 | 7 Comments »

The Paris climate talks were successful in that they resulted in an agreement that is both better than nothing and better than most of us expected. They were a failure in that even if they are followed to the letter — and there’s no provision for enforcing whether anyone follows them or not — they would […]

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Climate Justice for dummies

Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Here’s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps: The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%. Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth’s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human & nonhuman species that exists […]

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The climate connection

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on November 19, 2015 | 1 Comment »

How connected are the recent Paris attacks with the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)? At first glance, the targeting of Paris for ISIS’s act of war on civilian populations would seem to be motivated by other things: France’s role in […]

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What’s happening?

Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on November 9, 2015 | 2 Comments »

The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change, is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask? 1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s Time to Act! campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge demonstration in Paris […]

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The many ecologies of Laudato Si

Posted in Politics, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , on June 18, 2015 | 9 Comments »

Now that Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home,” is available for all to read, the punditocracy can debate it to their hearts’ content. As the most far-reaching statement by the single largest (relatively united) religious denomination on the planet, it is likely to have an immense impact on global conversations around […]

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