Democracy Or Extinction
What will it take for governments to take real action on climate? When will they declare an emergency and do what needs to be done? How much concerted, peaceful public action will be required to...
View ArticleComplacency and the Environmental Catastrophe
Ask any reasonably well-informed person what the cause of climate change is and the chances are they will say greenhouse gas emissions (GGE’s), but they would only be partially correct. While it is...
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The Climate Fiasco is Solved through Socialism
Oh, Oregon is holding hearings on HB 2020, a baby step around putting feet to fire of those so-called polluters. I will list it below. I have been asked to attend a skyped hearing, one that tells me to...
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Threading the Eye of the Needle: A Few Greenies Ain’t Gonna Cut Climate Change
Needle in a haystack. Little Dutch Boy putting fingers in leaking dike. The beach clean-up along the Central Oregon Coast, near Devils Punch Bowl, down south to Beverly Beach, is an exercise in...
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Homo Sapiens Plastica: The Right to Die Forever Preserved
It was a heck of a thing – a hundred people at the Newport City Council at 6 pm most of whom wanted to talk about the proposed single-use plastic bag (grocery) ban that is an ordinance largely led by...
View ArticleThe Coldest Spot on Earth, Melting
Global warming is a fact of life that haunts society with consequences that hit hard, exponentially, but where nobody lives. It is happening hyper fast, and it’s downright scary as major ecosystems of...
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Climate change’s ‘evil twin’ Ocean Acidification (and problem stepchild,...
People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth’s life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. Ninety-seven percent...
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To Bag or Not to Bag
We’re probably not the first time there’s been a civilization in the universe,” states Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and the author of Light of the Stars: Alien...
View ArticleEarth Day, Planetary Boundaries, and the Green New Deal
As we celebrate Earth Day in 2019, we need to recognize that more than climate change threatens our environment and our very existence. We have passed or are approaching several Planetary Boundaries...
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Climate Chaos Coming to You Streaming on Netflix
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There’s no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there’s a sense in which it doesn’t...
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Earth Day is 24/7, and Every Hour and Every Minute of Every Day According to...
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. — The...
View ArticleWhen will Californians wake up to the Risk to Children from Nuclear Radiation?
On March 7, the Inter Press Service (IPS) published my article, “Eight Years on, Fukushima Still Poses Health Risks for Children,” and I am very gratified to learn that it was the second most popular...
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Water, Water, Water: War Against Humanity
Capitalism is broken. It is like a gun pointed at the heart of the planet. And it’s got these characteristics which mean that it will essentially, necessarily destroy our life support systems. Among...
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Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s? But if his eyes were broad as the...
View ArticleThe London Climate Protests: Raising The Alarm
The feeling is often there at night, of course, in the wee small hours. But it can arise at almost any time – looking at someone we care about, listening to birdsong on an unusually warm spring...
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Kilowatt and Gallons Per Wash-load Illiterate Americans
No Water. No Life. No Blue. No Green. — Sylvia Earle In the tradition of many of my posts, I end up looking at the local through a sometimes fine and other times coarse lens to extrapolate what this...
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A Rolling Stone Never Collects Moss — Unless it ends up on Oregon’s Coast
It is hoped that the coming generation will recognize that that is probably one of the greatest and most ennobling challenges that face man on this planet today. To be able to break through to...
View ArticleDenial, Anger, Bargaining, Grief, Acceptance: The Five Stages of Ecocide
“There is hope, an infinite amount of hope, but not for us.” – Franz Kafka If artists are the antennae of the race, and writers and thinkers are also artists, then a vibration some are receiving and...
View ArticleCuster’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming
A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming...
View ArticleGlobal rebellion to Save Our Planet
“The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it.” The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent, dishonest and buried in the ideology of the past....
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