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It’s Greta’s World The World’s Oceans Are in Danger, Major Climate Change Report Warns Why the right’s usual smears don’t work on Greta Thunberg Well, she got upstaged by impeachment. Some stories will always capture the media, but that’s not to deny the reality and power of what Greta told the UN leaders last week. …
Would You Leave Joe Biden Alone With Trump? A Joe Biden presidency would be a climate catastrophe In Second Democratic Debate, Candidates Criticize Biden’s Climate Plans Excuse me, but after listening to and watching Joe Biden doddering through his responses at the third Democratic debate Thursday night, you have to wonder how he is still …
Democrats are divided on using nuclear energy to stop climate change On Climate, Sanders and Warren Must Go Nuclear Why Nuclear Power Must Be Part of the Energy Solution In his latest denial of reality, Trump got out his sharpie and altered Hurricane Dorian’s direction to send it 650 miles west to Alabama. And naturally …
US Produces Far More Waste and Recycles Far Less of It Than Other Developed Countries We’re Buying Into a Giant Lie about Plastic Microplastics Have Invaded the Deep Ocean—and the Food Chain As many of you know, I live in Oaxaca, Mexico. Saturday morning was garbage day, and I watched a brand new truck pull …
Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea Oh Dear: Photos Show What Humans Have Done To The Planet National Geographic, Climate Change Photos Dry Lake Bed, Bolivia, NY Times
The best way to reduce your personal carbon emissions: don’t be rich There has been much talk about how individuals can fight climate change through making personal choices. Well, finally we have a study, reported by David Roberts in Vox, that proves out how silly most of that discussion has been. The study concluded that …
Human Civilization Isn’t Prepared to Survive Climate Change If you need to be brought up to speed on the worst horrors possible with climate change, this piece is a good place to begin. Author Luke Darby interviews David Spratt, research director of the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Australia. The very broad strokes …
Bad taste is a complicated subject. I know this because I’ve been exploring it as a subject for a book. If you think about it, we are living in a world dominated by bad taste, however you want to define the term. It used to be that bad taste could be shuffled off by the …
Oaxaca, where I live, is a very transient community. Of the Americans living here, many visit for a few months a year or less, then move back in the summer to enjoy the heat, humidity, and dementia of U.S. culture. Snowbirds, we call them. They come from Canada too. The transiency of this place also …
Three days after I arrived here in September 2009, I was with my new Mexican friends celebrating Independence Day in the Zocalo. So were roughly a thousand others, and we were so densely packed that the crowd’s movement moved you. Some pinche ladrón lifted my wallet, containing a lot of cash, recently retrieved from an …