Thank you so much and ongoing, Bill McKibben. Crimes against planet earth is the justice area that must be implemented. And this amazing poetry project- let’s amplify this truth beauty. Blessings to you from Belfast, Maine at the turning of the year.
As a Californian, let me agree that Scott Wiener has done a lot to further affordable housing, but one of the ways he has done that is to emasculate environmental protection rules. Maybe not such a great thing.
Senator Wiener was also instrumental in pressuring UCSF to fire Dr. Rupa Marya, a professor (over 20 years) of internal medicine there. Wiener, like UCSF (a purportedly public institution), is a recipient of significant financial support from the Diller Foundation, contributors to the IDF and cheerleaders for the genocide. Dr. Marya was hounded out of her job by Wiener and the Dillers for advocating for Palestinian rights.
So no, Mr. McKibben, we would not "be so lucky" to have Wiener step into Nancy Pelosi's seat.
For more information, see HEALTHCARE WORKERS AS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS: A MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE ENABLEMENT APPARATUS IN GAZA AND ABROAD
The Full Report Now Published at the United Nations, on Dr. Marya's substack
Really important post. One idea re Greenland, to get as many EU countries (plus Britain) to pledge that if Trump (or any other country) invades Greenland they will instantly impose massive tariffs (like 1,000%) on all American good and services. This would obviously trigger a trade war, but a public pledge could also bring companies who are potentially affected, which would be all US companies, to pressure the Trump administration not to invade. And those might be the folks he listened to.
The other idea is asking the Greenlanders (and Danes) if they’d like some NATO troops stationed. Which would mean that if the US (or anyone else) invades, they’d be attacking NATO immediately, and not just relying on the strength of the treaties. That a pretty desperate measure, but these are desperate times and the goal is to head it off. I’d like the same to be applied to Columbia, which does seem the next target, but that would be a tougher sell to the EU.
I don’t have any Danish contacts, but maybe you do through 350.org
Thank you so much for these bits of good news, interspersed with the frightening reality that we aren't as yet moving as fast as we need to move.
Having already put up as much solar as our panel can handle, bought a Kona EV in 2019 and installed a solar pump last summer.......my partner and I now crave social programs that might gather seniors with some where with all into collectives that would help first time home owners solarize or make their nests more self sufficient.
We need to get off fossil gas and start building lives and communities that produce more than they consume. But it is hard to do alone, and unfortunately, many of us are still isolated in communities that believe methane gas is a clean transitional fuel, and small modular nuclear reactors are the saviors of the future.
It's heartening to hear what others are doing........and oh yes. Our electric bikes keep us fit and active in the summer as well, but I do wonder why they keep getting bigger and more expensive where I live???
Masculine Big Machine fixations might have something to do with it.
As to Trump: nothing he does will last; oppose him with everything green you can accomodate.
Trump can't even control himself. He'll not get as far with his emperor fantasies as we might think he will. Did you see those machine gun toting grandmas in Caracus on the telly the other night??
Brilliant reframing - the real strategic asset isn't what you can extract but what you need to preserve. That's the kind of thinking that shifts entire policy debates. The poets getting it better than the policymakers is telling tho; art has this way of cutting straight to what actually matters while diplomacy circles around abstractions. I rememer reading about the Marshall Islands testimony at climate talks and realizing how indigenous communities have always understood interconnected systems. The ice sheet isn't just meters of sea-level rise, it's feedback loops we're barely modeling.
I cant’t help but wonder whether Greenland would be so clearly in the crosshairs if most of its population were descendants of white Northern Europeans rather than indigenous Inuit.
Reading about a superfund site turned solar farm is the best news in days!
We have a company in Alberta that is putting up solar farms on lands so contaminated by past oil drilling and extraction that they can't be farmed.......and of course, we have a government that put a moratorium on solar farms over one megawatt, because they spoil the 'pristine view'. I've come to believe that the polarity we're experiencing now is primarily one between the Fossil Fool religion and the new Solar Economy.....
And we don't have another fifty years to win that contest.
With reference to Trump's Greenland ambitions. Isn't there a massive competition going to control the arctic waterways? don't many nations think this is a future shortcut from here to there? Owning real estate in the melting waters will be valuable when it becomes an ice-free waterway (mind the icebergs....)
Our Apollo 13 moment! We have a conundrum: Emissions reduction to net zero, let alone zero, and removing double all future emissions until atmospheric concentrations return to <350ppm and ocean acidity and fisheries are restored to Holocene norms, sea level rise will continue and global temperatures will become unsurvivable for an anticipated 2 billion refugees from the global south seeking refuge here in the cooler global north.
I am moved, and grieving. The only action I can muster is to go to my local Climate Cafe meeting here in Scotland, and share my concerns with other thinking, feeling humans. And to share this gorgeous video and poem, Rise, with everyone I know.
"Sister of ocean and sand,
Can you see our glaciers groaning
with the weight of the world’s heat?
I wait for you, here,
on the land of my ancestors heart heavy with a thirst
for solutions
as I watch this land
change
while the World remains silent." By Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna
I’m a bike rider who is not in love with e-bikes. While great for people who cannot ride a bike, the vast majority of people I see riding them are doing so out of laziness, whether they are commuters or mountain bikers like me. This is the Rebound Effect, or Jevon’s Paradox, in action. We should not applaud it.
Thank you so much and ongoing, Bill McKibben. Crimes against planet earth is the justice area that must be implemented. And this amazing poetry project- let’s amplify this truth beauty. Blessings to you from Belfast, Maine at the turning of the year.
As a Californian, let me agree that Scott Wiener has done a lot to further affordable housing, but one of the ways he has done that is to emasculate environmental protection rules. Maybe not such a great thing.
Senator Wiener was also instrumental in pressuring UCSF to fire Dr. Rupa Marya, a professor (over 20 years) of internal medicine there. Wiener, like UCSF (a purportedly public institution), is a recipient of significant financial support from the Diller Foundation, contributors to the IDF and cheerleaders for the genocide. Dr. Marya was hounded out of her job by Wiener and the Dillers for advocating for Palestinian rights.
So no, Mr. McKibben, we would not "be so lucky" to have Wiener step into Nancy Pelosi's seat.
For more information, see HEALTHCARE WORKERS AS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS: A MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE ENABLEMENT APPARATUS IN GAZA AND ABROAD
The Full Report Now Published at the United Nations, on Dr. Marya's substack
Really important post. One idea re Greenland, to get as many EU countries (plus Britain) to pledge that if Trump (or any other country) invades Greenland they will instantly impose massive tariffs (like 1,000%) on all American good and services. This would obviously trigger a trade war, but a public pledge could also bring companies who are potentially affected, which would be all US companies, to pressure the Trump administration not to invade. And those might be the folks he listened to.
The other idea is asking the Greenlanders (and Danes) if they’d like some NATO troops stationed. Which would mean that if the US (or anyone else) invades, they’d be attacking NATO immediately, and not just relying on the strength of the treaties. That a pretty desperate measure, but these are desperate times and the goal is to head it off. I’d like the same to be applied to Columbia, which does seem the next target, but that would be a tougher sell to the EU.
I don’t have any Danish contacts, but maybe you do through 350.org
Thank you so much for these bits of good news, interspersed with the frightening reality that we aren't as yet moving as fast as we need to move.
Having already put up as much solar as our panel can handle, bought a Kona EV in 2019 and installed a solar pump last summer.......my partner and I now crave social programs that might gather seniors with some where with all into collectives that would help first time home owners solarize or make their nests more self sufficient.
We need to get off fossil gas and start building lives and communities that produce more than they consume. But it is hard to do alone, and unfortunately, many of us are still isolated in communities that believe methane gas is a clean transitional fuel, and small modular nuclear reactors are the saviors of the future.
It's heartening to hear what others are doing........and oh yes. Our electric bikes keep us fit and active in the summer as well, but I do wonder why they keep getting bigger and more expensive where I live???
Masculine Big Machine fixations might have something to do with it.
As to Trump: nothing he does will last; oppose him with everything green you can accomodate.
I agree with everything you write, Ingamarie!
Let's keep pushing.....be the ancestors some of us have already had.
He clearly wants it, Bill. You're right. I don't doubt his imperial quest for control of this entire hemisphere for a half second.
Trump can't even control himself. He'll not get as far with his emperor fantasies as we might think he will. Did you see those machine gun toting grandmas in Caracus on the telly the other night??
Thank you so much for existing!!! 💗
Brilliant reframing - the real strategic asset isn't what you can extract but what you need to preserve. That's the kind of thinking that shifts entire policy debates. The poets getting it better than the policymakers is telling tho; art has this way of cutting straight to what actually matters while diplomacy circles around abstractions. I rememer reading about the Marshall Islands testimony at climate talks and realizing how indigenous communities have always understood interconnected systems. The ice sheet isn't just meters of sea-level rise, it's feedback loops we're barely modeling.
I've long thought the world's indigenous peoples were the civilized ones.......we white invading settler types, the barbarians.
You don't destroy, or extinct, what you love. Nor do you sell it to the highest bidder in the gawd awful 'open market'.
I cant’t help but wonder whether Greenland would be so clearly in the crosshairs if most of its population were descendants of white Northern Europeans rather than indigenous Inuit.
Reading about a superfund site turned solar farm is the best news in days!
We have a company in Alberta that is putting up solar farms on lands so contaminated by past oil drilling and extraction that they can't be farmed.......and of course, we have a government that put a moratorium on solar farms over one megawatt, because they spoil the 'pristine view'. I've come to believe that the polarity we're experiencing now is primarily one between the Fossil Fool religion and the new Solar Economy.....
And we don't have another fifty years to win that contest.
"With great power comes great responsibility". The directive.
From Spiderman and Sword of Damocles millenia ago.
Seems to me we live in the age of irresponsibility. Trump is an obvious breaker of the directive.
But, what about all of us who deny global heating, humanity suffering, and ALLOWING and inviting psychopathic kings?
As Earth 🔥
There is also oil to explain the desire for Greenland by the oilagarchy:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/greenland-suspends-oil-exploration-because-of-climate-change
With reference to Trump's Greenland ambitions. Isn't there a massive competition going to control the arctic waterways? don't many nations think this is a future shortcut from here to there? Owning real estate in the melting waters will be valuable when it becomes an ice-free waterway (mind the icebergs....)
Our Apollo 13 moment! We have a conundrum: Emissions reduction to net zero, let alone zero, and removing double all future emissions until atmospheric concentrations return to <350ppm and ocean acidity and fisheries are restored to Holocene norms, sea level rise will continue and global temperatures will become unsurvivable for an anticipated 2 billion refugees from the global south seeking refuge here in the cooler global north.
I am moved, and grieving. The only action I can muster is to go to my local Climate Cafe meeting here in Scotland, and share my concerns with other thinking, feeling humans. And to share this gorgeous video and poem, Rise, with everyone I know.
"Sister of ocean and sand,
Can you see our glaciers groaning
with the weight of the world’s heat?
I wait for you, here,
on the land of my ancestors heart heavy with a thirst
for solutions
as I watch this land
change
while the World remains silent." By Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna
I’m a bike rider who is not in love with e-bikes. While great for people who cannot ride a bike, the vast majority of people I see riding them are doing so out of laziness, whether they are commuters or mountain bikers like me. This is the Rebound Effect, or Jevon’s Paradox, in action. We should not applaud it.
Scott Wiener is a right-wing corporate candidate. Please support Connie Chan in the race to replace Pelosi.
"Life in all forms demands
The same respect we all give to money …"