Tag: science/environment | Terrible Ideas

Oiled Wildlife Care Network |

October 19, 2020

Head Exam, Oiled Grebe - Photo by Gayle Uyehara. — Head Exam, Oiled Grebe – Photo by Gayle Uyehara.

Since I quit regularly checking my Facebook page, it seems the algorithm overlords have filled in the empty space on my timeline with a huge number of animal rescue videos (and also videos of machines reducing the manual labor required … the rest “Oiled Wildlife Care Network”

Wildlife Photographer of the Year |

October 14, 2020

Photo by Sergey Gorshkov – Adult Grand Title Winner 2020

These photos are beautiful and ugly, inspiring and heartbreaking. We should be grateful for the skill and dedication of these photographers.

Let’s not give up on this amazing planet. Whatever changes it takes, let’s make them.

Warming Has Killed Half the Coral on the Great Barrier Reef |

October 14, 2020

Bleached corals at Lady Elliot Island in Queensland, Australia. - Photo by Jonas Gratzer — Bleached corals at Lady Elliot Island in Queensland, Australia. – Photo by Jonas Gratzer

“We expect this decline to continue” because of warming caused by humans, Hughes said. “The only effective way to improve the outcome for coral reefs is global action on greenhouse gasses. If global temperatures rise to 3 or 4 [degrees

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Your Civilization is Killing Us |

October 13, 2020 ( 1 )

Nemonte Nenquimo, leader of the Waorani people in Ecuador.

My name is Nemonte Nenquimo. I am a Waorani woman, a mother, and a leader of my people. The Amazon rainforest is my home. I am writing you this letter because the fires are raging still. Because the corporations are

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Jeffrey Sachs on the Catastrophic American Response to the Coronavirus |

October 10, 2020 ( 1 )

“I’m not looking for American heroism,” the economist Jeffrey Sachs said. “I’m looking for the United States not to be among the most destructive forces on the planet right now.”
—Jeffrey Sachs

How the Pandemic Defeated America |

August 3, 2020 ( 1 )

(Article at this link is available to all readers. No paywall.)

Pissed-off, terrified, depressed, or any combination of the above?

Despite ample warning, the U.S. squandered every possible opportunity to control the coronavirus. And despite its considerable advantages—immense resources, biomedical

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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America |

August 3, 2020

Carl Sagan on Mars with the Viking Lander, 1995

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers

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Washington Red Wolves

July 15, 2020

If the Washington NFL team changes its name to the Red Wolves, maybe they could also sponsor efforts to protect the species, which is critically endangered.

July 1, 2020 ( 1 )

This poem by Lynna Odel is used as an epigraph for Eric Holthaus’s new book on climate change. Beautiful.

If I can’t save us
then let me feel you
happy and safe
under my chin.
If this will drown
or burn
then let us drink starlight
nap under trees
sing on beaches—
the morning rush to sit indoors is for
what, again?
If we are dying
then let me rip open
and bleed Love,
spill it, spend it
see how much
there is
the reward for misers is
what, again?
If this life is ending
then let me begin
a new one
—Lynna Odel (2019)

Lynna’s personal take on fighting climate change has wisdom.

Feeling the Heat

June 30, 2020 ( 3 )

Book cover of The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus — Published today, 2020-06-30

There are plenty of memes circulating the internet these days about how awful 2020 is. There were plenty of memes circulating the internet about how awful 2019 was. But 2021? Really looking forward to it.

Awfulness. Our new metric.

Here’s … the rest “Feeling the Heat”

Plandoofus

May 7, 2020

Feeling oddly compelled to wade into the muck of the debate surrounding the “Plandemic” video that is currently circulating on social media. It’s complete bullshit and people are completely buying in.

Infuriating.

I sprinkled this around Facebook as … the rest “Plandoofus”

May 4, 2020

Adirondacks - Algonquin Peak seen from the South Meadows Lake plain in North Elba — Adirondack Mountais
Algonquin Peak seen from the South Meadows Lake plain in North Elba.

orogeny ô-rŏj′ə-nē

n. The process of mountain formation, especially by a folding and faulting of the earth’s crust.

n. Same as orogenesis.

n. the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth’s crust.

Some Good Writing

May 3, 2020

Point of view photo of pool shot — Photo by Naufal Ardi Santoso.

The carbonate platform collapsed,” Anita said. “The continental shelf went down and formed a big depression. Sediments pored in.” Much in the way that a sheet of paper bends downward if you move its two ends toward each other in … the rest “Some Good Writing”

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