This is a wonderful post, Mr. McKibben, in a long line of impactful writing and activism. Though this news from Washington has its unsightly, dealmaking underbelly, it nevertheless is better than the alternative, which was to abandon all hope ye who inhabit the earth. Maybe I’ll sleep tonight. Thanks, all, who fought the hard-won battles that brought us to this moment.
We need to start the process of publically shaming all the top financial CEOs and be unrelenting. Make it so that even their spouses, children and families are embarrassed by the actions of these key decision makers running our planet so they can profit. Expose them for the moral whores that they really are. Make it so that their is no escape from the public ire.
May the prime minister’s move signal a sea change. May it be a harbinger. May it usher in an era of power residing in the will of the people. (What a crazy concept.)
You're saying what I couldn't quite believe might have happened-- that the scorn and dismay heaped on Manchin ACTUALLY HAD AN EFFECT! and yes building on all the good work and yours at the forefront, pointing the way. THANK YOU.
It’s been a long time a comin’ … and I admit I’d given up, creating and posting a meme: “ Climate Reality: CONGRESS is broken, in stalemate, impotent, dysfunctional, irrelevant. How to #CoolTheArctic without the US Congress?”
Not sure we have the luxury to hold our collective breath and see if US Congress and the G7, G20 and COP27 will wake up to the likelihood of short term collapse of the Arctic ice cap and resulting unfettered spewing of thawed subsea methane hydrates, or existential destruction and death from the abnormal behavior of the jet stream and polar vortex.
Me, I’m not standing by… I have a strategic plan of action involving those with the moral authority. We have no other choice but to restore the polar-to-tropics temperature gradient with triage intervention to save humanity in the near term while reducing emissions and removing excess accumulations of legacy emissions from the oceans and atmosphere over decades.
Between this and the speed with which TFG's fortunes are turning, it's been a good day. (I tweeted Manchin about how people would remember him at some point in the last week.)
Thanks for this, Bill. Having given everything I could, including my health, I’d been feeling lately like nothing I did mattered. This is a beautiful reframe. Once again, I offer you my endless thanks.
Bill, I eagerly awaited your assessment of this development. Thanks for parsing it all out. I hope this is a moment that we will remember in our history as a tipping point. At the very least, we can keep moving forward with hope in the spirit of Rebecca Solnit’s words: “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“
Can we have a conversation about an extreme technology "feat" versus some questionable legislation to alleviate extreme natural "heat"/aka global warming?
The question is how much alleviation will there be / and when ... and will it be meaningful ... that's what matters in this verbal batter.
Hey, I live in Florida and have become heat acclimated. This under the radar heat index acclimation process is similar to a marathon runner training at a 7500 ft high elevation / low O2 location in Vermont and then winning a race at a 500 ft low elevation / higher O2 location in Peoria, Illinois.
Long Term Heat Index acclimatization is a process where your body undergoes both physiological and genetic changes that allow it to better handle the heat— which means that your performance in the heat will improve and you are less likely to suffer from heat-related problems (e.g., heat cramps; being more pessimistic about global warming, irritability, etc).
For heat acclimatization to occur, you typically have to increase your core body temperature by 1°C (~1.8°F) for at least 1 hour, repeatedly each day, for around 500 -1400 days in a row (each person will take a different amount of time to acclimatize to the heat).
I have developed a Genetic Modification CRISPR process to speed this process up to less than 60 days ... that's the "feat" to beat the "heat"
Every wildfire story, every flood, every report of extreme heat around the world-I tweet at Manchin, with “This is on you”
Thank you for all your good work, and for being a merchant of hope, at a time when it is in short supply. I may actually sleep tonight!
This is a wonderful post, Mr. McKibben, in a long line of impactful writing and activism. Though this news from Washington has its unsightly, dealmaking underbelly, it nevertheless is better than the alternative, which was to abandon all hope ye who inhabit the earth. Maybe I’ll sleep tonight. Thanks, all, who fought the hard-won battles that brought us to this moment.
We can save the world, if we remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint. ""It takes 20 years to make an overnight success."
We need to start the process of publically shaming all the top financial CEOs and be unrelenting. Make it so that even their spouses, children and families are embarrassed by the actions of these key decision makers running our planet so they can profit. Expose them for the moral whores that they really are. Make it so that their is no escape from the public ire.
May the prime minister’s move signal a sea change. May it be a harbinger. May it usher in an era of power residing in the will of the people. (What a crazy concept.)
Dance to the Music!
You're saying what I couldn't quite believe might have happened-- that the scorn and dismay heaped on Manchin ACTUALLY HAD AN EFFECT! and yes building on all the good work and yours at the forefront, pointing the way. THANK YOU.
It’s been a long time a comin’ … and I admit I’d given up, creating and posting a meme: “ Climate Reality: CONGRESS is broken, in stalemate, impotent, dysfunctional, irrelevant. How to #CoolTheArctic without the US Congress?”
Not sure we have the luxury to hold our collective breath and see if US Congress and the G7, G20 and COP27 will wake up to the likelihood of short term collapse of the Arctic ice cap and resulting unfettered spewing of thawed subsea methane hydrates, or existential destruction and death from the abnormal behavior of the jet stream and polar vortex.
Me, I’m not standing by… I have a strategic plan of action involving those with the moral authority. We have no other choice but to restore the polar-to-tropics temperature gradient with triage intervention to save humanity in the near term while reducing emissions and removing excess accumulations of legacy emissions from the oceans and atmosphere over decades.
Between this and the speed with which TFG's fortunes are turning, it's been a good day. (I tweeted Manchin about how people would remember him at some point in the last week.)
I'm very grateful to hear this news tonight.
Thanks for this, Bill. Having given everything I could, including my health, I’d been feeling lately like nothing I did mattered. This is a beautiful reframe. Once again, I offer you my endless thanks.
thank you!
Thank you -- your article prompted me to subscribe recognizing that it is here where the exchange of ideas versus tempers resides -- maybe I'm home??
Bill, I eagerly awaited your assessment of this development. Thanks for parsing it all out. I hope this is a moment that we will remember in our history as a tipping point. At the very least, we can keep moving forward with hope in the spirit of Rebecca Solnit’s words: “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“
Can we have a conversation about an extreme technology "feat" versus some questionable legislation to alleviate extreme natural "heat"/aka global warming?
The question is how much alleviation will there be / and when ... and will it be meaningful ... that's what matters in this verbal batter.
Hey, I live in Florida and have become heat acclimated. This under the radar heat index acclimation process is similar to a marathon runner training at a 7500 ft high elevation / low O2 location in Vermont and then winning a race at a 500 ft low elevation / higher O2 location in Peoria, Illinois.
Long Term Heat Index acclimatization is a process where your body undergoes both physiological and genetic changes that allow it to better handle the heat— which means that your performance in the heat will improve and you are less likely to suffer from heat-related problems (e.g., heat cramps; being more pessimistic about global warming, irritability, etc).
For heat acclimatization to occur, you typically have to increase your core body temperature by 1°C (~1.8°F) for at least 1 hour, repeatedly each day, for around 500 -1400 days in a row (each person will take a different amount of time to acclimatize to the heat).
I have developed a Genetic Modification CRISPR process to speed this process up to less than 60 days ... that's the "feat" to beat the "heat"