@amywestervelt.bsky.social on Climate Week NewYork "an unsettling disconnect between people noshing on passed hors d'oeuvres and sipping craft cocktails while talking about the need to "stay positive!" "tell the positive stories!" "give people hope!" Trying not to just quote the whole thing here..
Last week was New York Climate Week, which happens alongside the UN General Assembly every year, or as I overheard one person describe it: the UNGA games. I've never participated in Climate Week, but ...
ABC produced a feature about the lethal combinations of heat and humidity. there's some extraordinary research coming out of University of Sydney literally testing these limits on people. Spoiler alert - it can be *really* brutal, even for the fit and healthy www.youtube.com/watch?v=poQk...
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
This wonderful video is a love letter to the IPCC, as well as to the wonderful people in Hobart who have played an outsized role in providing climate clarity through its reports @antarctic.bsky.social@antarcticsciaus.bsky.socialyoutu.be/k8PEO02LYiM
YouTube video by Australian Antarctic Program Partnership
Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are
Tell artists you like their work. It’s how they stay filled with life-giving art mucous.
I can't understand how people are still baffled by this. From what I've seen, it generally boils down to huge costs, world going to shit, women learning they don't need to get forever stuck with a garbage man, huge impact on daily life that's even bigger if no local family support. Also, costs.
The question of whether or not to have children implicates life’s deepest, most vexing questions.
Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest
Sustainability scientists’ critique of neoclassical economics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sustainability scientists challenge the dominant economic system johnmenadue.com/sustainabili...
It is a rare event when scientists directly challenge the theory, political power and cultural embeddedness of conventional economics.
