Harris and Walz need to come up with better climate change talking points. You can't say "climate change is a crisis" and follow it up with "but we're producing more oil and gas than ever!"
Here's some good news. Looks like Gov. Hochul will have to explain in court why she thinks she can unilaterally set aside a duly enacted law. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/10/01/j...
As the last coal power plant goes offline in the UK, where coal once fueled a global colonial empire, a quick check-in on how coal phase-out is going in the US. TL;DR: we have a long way to go. 🧵
Well, the problem is not that folks emphasize one at the cost of the other. Instead, it's how one talks about responsibility and accountability. The risks with solution-ism is that it loses sight of why readily available solutions have not been implemented. #ClimateAction#ToxicPositivity
Both of these things can be true: toxic positivity in the climate movement is bad AND focusing on solutions isn’t inherently toxic positivity. Why? Because we know what so many of the solutions are, but almost none are being implemented at the speed/scale necessary & we don’t know if they will be!
Researchers assessed 42 indicators of climate action needed by 2030 to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C. Only one is on track.
Always looked forward to the Weekly Reader!
The US Society for Ecological Economics is excited to welcome these presenters at our Friday webinars: Dr. Jeroen van den Bergh - THIS FRIDAY 10/4 Dr. Olivia Pereira - 11/1 + 11/8 Dr. Klaus Hubacek - 11/15 Past USSEE President Dr. Robby Richardson - 12/04
Same here in Michigan. I posted this earlier today. Didn't quite make it to 80 - 78 with a heat index of 80 - but it still feels like summer. bsky.app/profile/erik...
I wrote a review of The Culture of Stopping in Environmental Values if you'd like a quick summary. It was an interesting read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Welzer wrote: “And wouldn’t it – to pan back from my own case to society at large – be a much better and no doubt pleasanter way to respond to our ecological challenges if we accepted them as phenomena of finitude and finally developed stopping strategies...”