A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30

Solutions to the climate multicrisis will be as mosaic as the problems themselves.

Trump's inauguration: government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.

New post 👇

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She has no clue the world on fire.

2024 is the first year the annual global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C.

While this doesn’t mean the Paris Agreement’s limit has been breached (the 1.5°C limit is assessed over 20-30 years, not a single year) it is an urgent warning to rapidly reduce fossil fuel emissions.

Libraries are subject to climate disaster and drivers of environmental sustainability. Read more at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

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“…our failure to plan for the future or to take energy conservation seriously started long before this winter and it will take much longer to solve.” -Jimmy Carter 1977

I’ve always been very impressed by Jimmy Carter’s work to protect rivers, but that was just one of many things he worked to protect and improve. The world will be poorer without him. RIP.

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To say the solution to climate change and inequity is economic growth, when economic growth is parenthetical to the cause of both issues, is frustrating to say the least. But Mary Robinson’s “Climate Justice,” was otherwise a lovely read. I have a few more reflections below.

Taxpayers subsidize fossil fuel.

Then pay out of pocket for fossil fuels.

Then pay for programs to adapt to fossil fuels’ climate impact.

Oil companies saw a profit of more than a trillion since 2021.

Trillion. With a T.

Shift in responsibility is overdue, especially considering they knew.

“The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan is a mosaic of stories that play out like environmental parables. I’m left with equal parts dread for next inevitable way we hurt our Great Lakes and an urgency to love my home.

In the, “I can’t put this book down,” phase.

My TBR
- “They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis” by James Gustave Speth

- “Being Ecological” by @coexistence.bsky.social

My wish list
- “Tenacious Beasts” by Christopher J. Preston

- 2025’s Earth Day reading list by @mitpress.bsky.social

OK, by popular demand... here's my rendition of what I call "The Offramp". It's the virtuous circle antidote to the vicious cycle of the Doom Loop. It *starts* with social movements for economic and political justice. So, grab a pitch fork, and let the billionaire class know we're coming!