Covid or Climate: Can’t it be both?
In a local school board meeting from last June, in which they discussed their plan to remove HEPAs in rooms that had mechanical ventilation added (as if it’s and either/or…
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American attitudes toward climate change
A 2022 study1 by investigators from Yale and George Mason universities reported survey results after Americans were questioned about climate change. I suspect ignorance would be lower and expressions of…
Precarious times
If we paid more attention to impacts of climate change, we would demand our governments take immediate and effective action, not offer promises that solutions will somehow be in place…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Will Stone discusses what’s still a limited state of knowledge around long COVID even as it continues to strike – and cause devastating…
Stages of Genocide
We like to think we are way beyond barbarity and that the outrageously cruel acts of the past (many not in the too distant past) will never be anything we…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Damian Carrington reports on a “scientific health check” showing that Earth’s life support systems are well outside what’s safe for humanity. But Jonathan…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mary Van Beusekom discusses new research showing that a quarter of COVID-19 survivors are still facing impaired lung function (among other health problems)…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Woodside weighs in on the UN’s recognition of the need to stop our dependence on dirty energy. And Jillian Ambrose reports…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board writes that there’s still every reason to take precautions to avoid the spread of COVID-19, while Frances Ryan points…
Aug 3: The day Danielle Smith kneecapped wind and solar energy
The low point of my summer (and there were many with this UCP government) came on Aug 3 when Danielle Smith announced a 7 month moratorium on wind and solar…
Leaving the Goldilocks Zone
This very brief TikTok from view.from.my.eyes is a perfect metaphor (and reality) of our current situation: @top_jumbomortgage_lender #greece #flood ♬ original sound – steve Check out the people on the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rebecca Leber highlights how drilling in the Arctic and other high-cost fossil fuel extraction plans are based on a sociopathic bet against any…
Should Schools have A/C?
Or do we need hot days to be considered “bad weather” days and just close the schools? And do we need to re-think how we do school – and civilization…
Why Climate of Joy?
At the same time that there’s these extremes going on in the planetary level, we have new science that’s telling us that this physical world that we can see and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tess Finch Lee writes about the importance of doing everything we can to protect children (and indeed the general population) from COVID-19.…
Wildfires
Wildfires are clearly a major problem for Canadians in 2023. Primary causes are known but solutions conflict with policies of governments that prefer to eliminate forest diversity and promote fossil…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein report on the World Meteorological Association’s finding that we’ve just had the hottest summer in recorded history. And…
Canada, land of vanishing wonders
Mike Hanafin, “Brilliant doesn’t do this justice. @thejuicemedia usually skewers Australian (Australien!) govts/politicians for kissing up to Big Oil, Fossil Fuel extractors, & monopolist billionaires. But they noticed it was…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dawn Bowdish and Andrew Costa provide a reminder as to how to stay as safe as possible from COVID-19 (even as governments…
Do kids have to sue for a sustainable future?
Much publicity was generated recently by a court case in Montana (Held v. State of Montana). A nonprofit called Our Children’s Trust, acting on behalf of 16 young Montanans, sued…