Category: climate change
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An information campaign that’s transmitted into Russia is needed.
Yes, this is an environmental web page, but today I’m writing about the war in Ukraine and about the need to conduct an information campaign directed toward Russians—because a prolonged Ukraine War could cause us to lose the Climate War. Information Campaign Needed to Change Russian Minds A public relations campaign directed at the everyday…
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Washington State: doing the work that’s needed.
Theodore Roosevelt said, “It’s not the critic who counts.” I admire Washington State’s governor and legislators because, rather than just gripe, they work the solutions to problems. Governor Jay Inslee’s Press Update (from press@updates.gov.wa.gov) of 10 Mar. 2023 reports on what action his office and the Washington State legislature have taken recently towards making our…
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Youth Climate and Conservation Rally, Olympia, WA
On 13 January 2023 (Friday), from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.[MRM note: It’s about climate action, renewable energy, dams, salmon, and orcas.]⸺ source: WYORCA’s announcement at https://saveourwildsalmon.salsalabs.org/YouthRallyOlympiaJan13/index.html (accessed 7 Jan. 2023). Old and Young Folks at Olympia on 30 Jan. 2020
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“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
— Said by the gun-runner character Jackie Brown in the book by George Higgins, The Friends of Eddy Coyle (1970). For us to stay smart, our communities need a vigorous, healthy, local free press. See my synopsis of the 2021 year-end message from the publisher of The Seattle Times, about saving the country’s local free…
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Humans Probably Will Not Go Extinct
Reading and writing about the climate crisis means to follow a changing narrative, as climate change is now happening fast and brutally, and humanity’s climate-action response has, consequently, changed dramatically in the last few years. Though we still use mostly fossil fuels, our direction has decidedly switched to one of renewable fuels and other measures…
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The weather is weird.
As I left church this Sunday, I spoke to an eighty-year-old man who has lived his life on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, and he commented, “The weather is weird.” I’ve heard similar sayings from folks who’ve lived for decades in my neighborhood. They say that rain and wind usually start by September, and…
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Man, I needed the recent climate-action headlines.
When I was a child, my family often vacationed at Lake Powell and camped near Bullfrog Marina. What a long lake it was—120 miles long. It’s incredible to see the NASA photos showing how much of it has dried up. In the past decade, I’ve experienced summers of smoke, heat, and drought in the western…
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Trees—on Joyce Kilmer’s Day
Trees, trees, and more trees“Trees, trees and more trees,” was Golden Gate Park Supervisor John McLaren’s motto when he helped design the shaded, pleasant, walkable, and popular Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon. Trees, we know (besides making our neighborhoods cooler and more pleasant), are part of the solution to the climate crisis. Only God can…
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America doesn’t, and then it does
America doesn’t, and then it does—it’s often our history. As my blog post of 25 July “America Surrenders on Climate Change” (accessible at https://mrmconservation.com/2022/07/25/america-surrenders-on-climate-change/) related, America’s Congress had given up on passing climate legislation . . . but then it put forth big climate legislation. If passed, this legislation will remake America as a clean…
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America Surrenders on Climate Change
24 July 2022 Jon Talton, “Surrender on Climate Change Bakes Catastrophe Into the Planet’s Cake,” The Seattle Times, 24 July 2022, Print, C5 and C10; 22 July 2022, Web, https://www.seattletimes.com/business/surrender-on-climate-change-bakes-catastrophe-in-the-planets-cake/ My synopsis of this article: President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, with its many climate-action initiatives, would have launched the United States on a…
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