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Ten Reasons Why a ‘Greater Depression’ for the 2020s Is Inevitable Why Our Economy May Be Headed for a Decade of Depression Welcome to the End of the ‘Human Climate Niche’ I want to call it the coronavirus blues, that empty, groping housebound depression that keeps you from engaging with all that free time. It’s …
How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease The Covid-19 ‘Infowhelm’ There Is Still No Plan This is a picture of plastic on the sea floor, a rape of nature and another instance of hubris—that ultimate kind of human arrogance—here putting the stuff out of sight, out of mind. Some of our …
Albert Camus, The Plague Gordon A. Craig, Politics of a Plague David Wallace-Wells, The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change Future I’m rereading the great Albert Camus novel The Plague (La Peste), and there’s no fiction more timely than this. It’s Camus’s best work, the story of how plague comes to a small French-Algerian …
Trump’s Coronavirus Press Conference Wasn’t Exactly Reassuring Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts A Very Hot Year If you watched El Cheeto’s incoherent news conference on coronavirus, you saw someone attempting to announce an emergency and minimize it, while continually congratulating himself on the good job he’s doing. It was a disgusting …
Planners talk about resilience in the face of climate change. We need to start using a different R word. CLIMATE SCORECARD: 10 critical climate actions that the Democratic nominee for President can take immediately upon entering the White House. Jeff Bezos just made one of the largest charitable gifts ever Our extreme level of uncertainty …
Weather: A novel Global Climate in 2015-2019: Climate change accelerates Every Democrat should run on Trump’s disastrous budget proposal What most keeps you up at night? Thinking about Trump or climate change? Which is the worst threat? Or maybe it’s getting the kids off to school tomorrow? The answer for many would be Trump, who …
Climate Change Could Push Bumblebees to Extinction Bumblebee Decline Linked With Extreme Heat Waves Climate Change: It’s a Buzzkill for Bumblebees, Study Finds A major study has documented what has long been suspected: the bees are dying, and the world’s plants and biodiversity will suffer from that. Bumblebee extinction seems to be underway, and populations …
Why the Climate Movement’s Next Big Target Is Wall Street Want to Do Something About Climate Change? Follow the Money BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance The financing spigot has provided way over half a trillion dollars during the last three years to America’s fossil fuel producers. That’s from just four Wall …
Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide Don’t Let Australia’s Crisis Go to Waste Public anger builds against Morrison I borrow the title of James Baldwin’s 1963 best-seller that articulated his personal agonies in the civil rights movement. In our time what could galvanize people to stop the burning? I wish I had the skill and talent …
The Challenging Politics of Climate Change How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts Americans Increasingly See Climate Change as a Crisis, Poll Shows Elaine Kamarck of the Brookings Institution leads off her piece on climate and politics with a great quote from Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live (10/13/18): We don’t …