“refusing to tackle the climate emergency on the basis of cost is like being trapped in your car on a level crossing as a train speeds towards it, but refusing to pay the tow truck fee because you think it’s too high.” —McGuire, Bill. The Fate of the World: An urgent polemic about the history and politics of climate change Continue Reading
Well, I guess we can expect “National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine” to come under direct fire from the denier idiots in the White House and Lee Zeldin’s EPA for this “outrage” of reporting actual science. “The next time your community is hit by a heatwave or flash flood, lay some blame with Big Oil. This report is yet Continue Reading
"Claude: Ask hard questions. " AI commercial that ran during All-Star game. So help us build for a warmer world, and toward a sustainable future. Kind of a big challenge.It's easily the most important set of questions and answers we need to find and build. Clarification: "build for a warmer world" that is now with us for quite some time, Continue Reading
I've heard many times now that the "Frog in Boiling Water" thing is a myth, but the Climate Deniers? They make it true. Even now, they keep saying "It's just summer", and theyre still quoting fake science that "disproves" we are experiencing more often and more intense storms. The water has been boiling a long time, and they're still at Continue Reading
"GOP" could now just mean "Grifter Oligarch Party". That fits.
Tennessee Valley Authority follows Trump’s lead, shying away from solar and wind. Source: Nation’s Biggest Public Utility Just Doubled Down on Coal, Gas, and Nuclear – Mother Jones One of the many “privileges” of living in Tennessee is being somewhat at the mercy of TVA for our energy crisis being exacerbated by the Ecological Crisis.(I say “somewhat because they do Continue Reading
Mega-firestorms are erupting around the globe. And we’re not prepared Source: Deadly ‘fire thunderstorms’ are forming across the US. And cities may be powerless to stop them | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Social Psychology Benefits along with susceptibility to abuse and accentuation of the shallow The idea that “it’s actually real, not digital” is something I often talk about when talking about online community, and it’s possibilities. I would go further (and often do) and say that it is BOTH digital and REAL. This brings into view what I think important to Continue Reading
I was thinking this morning about how excited I was in the 90s and in that first decade of the 2000’s about online community, specifically for the cause of churches, but within that, for the cause of politics of justice and confronting economic inequality and , even then, an ecological sense that was not yet in crisis mode like it Continue Reading
Source: Peter D Carter on X: “FOSSIL FUELLED EXTREME HEAT HITS US & FRANCE-AGAIN Heat domes hover over the US and Europe, wth France being baked again. Heat definitely global warming boosted, at 1.39°C. (Copernicus June temperature increase). #heatwave #climatechange. #globalwarming https://t.co/bAYXl7M9Nx” / Twitter Peter D Carter (@PCarterClimate) on X x.com
I would add "Religious Education" as well…..for those that are faithfully endeavoring to replicate The KIngdom of God, which IS an EcoCivilization if anything, the fight to confront and name "Windigo, Inc." is the calling to Prophetic Imagination; to teach a better way, and to name the evil as it attempts to spead its misery over everyone to threatens to Continue Reading
“In the Gettysburg Address, honoring those who had died fighting on a civil war battlefield, President Abraham Lincoln uttered the world-famous declaration: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." It was a stirring vision that has galvanized people's hearts ever since, but it was sadly a long way from describing the Continue Reading
It's long been a thing with me to shake my head in disgust when I hear "AI" , because the most important use of "intelligence" should be to help us to build a civilization that works for everything and everyone. It's a tall task, but if there was ever a project on which we should be aiming it, it is Continue Reading
Because Trump has, always has had, and coninues to have, the "Anti-Midas" touch on EVERYTHING he touches. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal?CMP=share\_btn\_url
