Climate Crisis

Hot Air Climate News Roundup

Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 5:04am

Something to keep in mind…


It becomes profitable to set new and unrealistic standards,
to generate a culture of comparison and inferiority.
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Because people who constantly feel inferior make
the best customers.
Marketing in our economy pushes insecurity onto us that is not helpful.
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It intentionally triggers inadequacies
or addictions within ourselves
to make more profit.
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How Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold

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Hot Air Climate News Roundup

Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 5:32am

Something to keep in mind…


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[video: https://youtu.be/PUzJPMV-ZNk]
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The opposite of hope is not despair
it’s grief
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Even while resolving to limit the damage
we can mourn
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And here the sheer scale of the problem
provides a perverse comfort
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We are in this together
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Join
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GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE
September 20-27
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WORLDWIDE REBELLION
October 7-18
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Hot Air Climate News Roundup

Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 08/22/2019 - 5:19am

Something to keep in mind…

The problem starts
with
extraction and transportation.
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Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning: An interview with Dahr Jamil Truth Out 8-20-19

Global capitalism demands we pretend all is well, while climate and political realities already reveal the end game we are living in. The U.S. government, along with many others in the western world, has lurched into overt authoritarianism, while climate chaos accelerates at a breakneck pace. How do we live in both worlds? In this column, each of us reflect on our own process of coping with this existential schism, in hopes that our experiences might be of some help in grappling with the grave dilemma we all share.

Hot Air Climate News Roundup

Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 08/15/2019 - 5:11am

Something to keep in mind…

The subantarctic seas are some of the richest on Earth,
and there is a genuine paradox here,
for that richness exists
despite an almost total absence
of the nutrient iron.
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The presence of sea ice somehow compensates for this,
for the semifrozen edge between salt water
and the floating ice
promotes remarkable growth of the microscopic plankton
that is the base of the food chain.
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Despite the months of winter darkness,
the plankton thrives under the ice,
allowing the krill that feed on them
to complete their seven-year life cycle.
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And wherever there is krill in abundance,
there are likely to be penguins, seals and great whales.
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The Weather Makers
Tim Flannery

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