Cari McIntyre
@getcaridaway.bsky.social
Neurospicy disaster nerd powered by curiosity failing at social media. Emergency manager/planner promoting person-centred, trust-based collaboration & reciprocity in action. Grateful guest in K’ómoks Territories. #ComoxValley #DRR
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Cari McIntyre
@getcaridaway.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Comfort is not a companion of change.
-Goldmining the Shadows
-Goldmining the Shadows
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The idea of “bad help” in disasters is an issue some #DRR practitioners & policy makers are already familiar with.
Support works best when shaped with communities NOT for communities. Listening is key.
So I loved this point from
@lucygobag.bsky.social
More - bit.ly/3Lm9d63
#InclusiveDRR
Support works best when shaped with communities NOT for communities. Listening is key.
So I loved this point from
@lucygobag.bsky.social
More - bit.ly/3Lm9d63
#InclusiveDRR
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The idea of “bad help” in disasters is an issue some #DRR practitioners & policy makers are already familiar with.
Support works best when shaped with communities NOT for communities. Listening is key.
So I loved this point from
@lucygobag.bsky.social
More - bit.ly/3Lm9d63
#InclusiveDRR
Support works best when shaped with communities NOT for communities. Listening is key.
So I loved this point from
@lucygobag.bsky.social
More - bit.ly/3Lm9d63
#InclusiveDRR
In BC the Prov govt is offloading #DEM to local authorities. Experienced Prov staff leave #EMCR leaving destabilized support structures. Federal reinvestment in #DEM has disappeared. Capacity is shrinking. Burnout is growing. #BC needs sustainable #DEM funding from Fed & Prov NOW or 👇 we are next…
Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one. www.wired.com/story/fema-i...
FEMA Isn't Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say
Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.
www.wired.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Here's why the climate-friendly right-to-repair movement is gaining steam in red states grist.org/politics/rig...
The environmental policy backed by free-market Republicans
Several years ago, Louis Blessing’s wife asked for his help replacing the battery in her laptop. An electrical engineer by training, Blessing figured it would be a quick fix. But after swapping out th...
grist.org
April 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here's why the climate-friendly right-to-repair movement is gaining steam in red states grist.org/politics/rig...
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ICF has supported the National Climate Assessment and the IPCC for nearly two decades with professionalism & integrity.
Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies.
There's no one left to work on NCA.
Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies.
There's no one left to work on NCA.
I have served as a lead author on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and author on the 5th national climate assessment.
Our ICF colleagues were highly trained professionals who put the science first, second and last. I have never heard one of them ever voice a political opinion.
These claims are simply untrue.
Our ICF colleagues were highly trained professionals who put the science first, second and last. I have never heard one of them ever voice a political opinion.
These claims are simply untrue.
Meet The Government Consultants Raking In Millions To Spread Climate Doom
More than three decades ago, Congress launched an initiative called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year empowering liberal climate scientists to spread...
www.dailywire.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
ICF has supported the National Climate Assessment and the IPCC for nearly two decades with professionalism & integrity.
Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies.
There's no one left to work on NCA.
Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies.
There's no one left to work on NCA.
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Have spent the day lecturing on how the post 9/11 changes to FEMA laid the groundwork for the failed response in New Orleans with strong undertones of PLEASE FUCKING LEARN FROM HISTORY THAT HAVING AN OPERATING FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION IS IMPORTANT.
April 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Have spent the day lecturing on how the post 9/11 changes to FEMA laid the groundwork for the failed response in New Orleans with strong undertones of PLEASE FUCKING LEARN FROM HISTORY THAT HAVING AN OPERATING FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION IS IMPORTANT.
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BRIC was a grant program run by FEMA that provided mitigation funding for communities across the country. This was a critical source of funding for overall reduction in risk but especially climate adaptation.
headwaterseconomics.org/natural-haza...
headwaterseconomics.org/natural-haza...
Rising demand for FEMA’s BRIC program far exceeds available funding - Headwaters Economics
An analysis of FEMA’s BRIC program for climate adaptation and disaster resilience funding shows rising demand, but unequal access.
headwaterseconomics.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
BRIC was a grant program run by FEMA that provided mitigation funding for communities across the country. This was a critical source of funding for overall reduction in risk but especially climate adaptation.
headwaterseconomics.org/natural-haza...
headwaterseconomics.org/natural-haza...
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New #article from Kirby: Strengthening community resilience through participation – a conceptual exploration
TL;DR: individual, social, governance and economic dimensions are interdependent upon each other and present community as a dynamic process
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
TL;DR: individual, social, governance and economic dimensions are interdependent upon each other and present community as a dynamic process
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
New #article from Kirby: Strengthening community resilience through participation – a conceptual exploration
TL;DR: individual, social, governance and economic dimensions are interdependent upon each other and present community as a dynamic process
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
TL;DR: individual, social, governance and economic dimensions are interdependent upon each other and present community as a dynamic process
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pollution, climate change, unsustainable resource use, and land conversion are driving the biodiversity crisis—even in areas with little human impact. Remote ecosystems have just 33% of viable plant species, showing how far-reaching our effects on the biosphere are, says @julianschrader.bsky.social
Invisible losses: thousands of plant species are missing from places they could thrive – and humans are the reason
Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as logging, poaching and setting fires.
theconversation.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pollution, climate change, unsustainable resource use, and land conversion are driving the biodiversity crisis—even in areas with little human impact. Remote ecosystems have just 33% of viable plant species, showing how far-reaching our effects on the biosphere are, says @julianschrader.bsky.social
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It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
“Treasure curiosity more than certainty…”
What words resonate most for you from this #MegWheatley poem, as you reflect on the strange new world we inhabit today?
#MargaretWheatley
What words resonate most for you from this #MegWheatley poem, as you reflect on the strange new world we inhabit today?
#MargaretWheatley
March 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Treasure curiosity more than certainty…”
What words resonate most for you from this #MegWheatley poem, as you reflect on the strange new world we inhabit today?
#MargaretWheatley
What words resonate most for you from this #MegWheatley poem, as you reflect on the strange new world we inhabit today?
#MargaretWheatley
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So in case anyone is wondering if the thought police stop at the US/Canada border - think again: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
U.S. government is asking Canadian researchers whether their work deals with DEI, climate, gender
Questions to grant recipients infringe on academic independence, Canadian faculty group says
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So in case anyone is wondering if the thought police stop at the US/Canada border - think again: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
March 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
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Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
March 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
First measles, now dysentery … next it’s fording rivers and breaking axels while thieves steal our oxen, then dying of cholera and exhaustion.
You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.
Dysentery cases on the rise in the Portland area: 40 new cases reported in January alone
Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.
www.usatoday.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
First measles, now dysentery … next it’s fording rivers and breaking axels while thieves steal our oxen, then dying of cholera and exhaustion.
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JOHN DeMONT: Desperate times teach us who our friends are www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
JOHN DeMONT: Desperate times teach us who our friends are
During hard times, like we're seeing lately with U.S. tariffs, we learn who are friends and enemies are, writes John DeMont.
www.saltwire.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
JOHN DeMONT: Desperate times teach us who our friends are www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Today is Search and Rescue Volunteer Memorial Day honouring those risking lives to find/rescue us in very dangerous situations. Show your support by donating and/or publicly thanking Search and Rescue societies of dedicated professional volunteers/K9s in #ComoxValley & across #BC. @bcsara.com
Search and rescue volunteers
Search and Rescue
www2.gov.bc.ca
March 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today is Search and Rescue Volunteer Memorial Day honouring those risking lives to find/rescue us in very dangerous situations. Show your support by donating and/or publicly thanking Search and Rescue societies of dedicated professional volunteers/K9s in #ComoxValley & across #BC. @bcsara.com
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ICYMI: “More than a thousand people have been evacuated as Japan battles its largest wildfire in more than three decades.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... - @theguardian.com
#Japan #Iwate #Ofunato
#Japan #Iwate #Ofunato
Japan battles largest wildfire in decades
More than a thousand people have been evacuated near forest of Ofunato in northern region of Iwate
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
ICYMI: “More than a thousand people have been evacuated as Japan battles its largest wildfire in more than three decades.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... - @theguardian.com
#Japan #Iwate #Ofunato
#Japan #Iwate #Ofunato
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reminder for these times.
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Housing First provides permanent, affordable housing quickly for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. It then offers supportive services and community connections to help them maintain housing and avoid returning to homelessness. #HousingFirst #socialresponsibility #righttolive
March 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Housing First provides permanent, affordable housing quickly for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. It then offers supportive services and community connections to help them maintain housing and avoid returning to homelessness. #HousingFirst #socialresponsibility #righttolive
“The Tsilhqot’in National Government’s report says it had to overcome “jurisdictional confusion,”and that the province “struggled” to share information … calling on both the provincial and federal governments to integrate their consultation, co-operation and consent protocols’.” tinyurl.com/yacfabcf
Massive Chilcotin River landslide response revealed shortfalls: First Nation report | Globalnews.ca
The Tsilhqot'in National Government's report says it had to overcome "jurisdictional confusion," and that the province "struggled" to share information about the slide.
globalnews.ca
March 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“The Tsilhqot’in National Government’s report says it had to overcome “jurisdictional confusion,”and that the province “struggled” to share information … calling on both the provincial and federal governments to integrate their consultation, co-operation and consent protocols’.” tinyurl.com/yacfabcf
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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I know this to be true.
February 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I know this to be true.
A single map will never tell the whole story of a place. This whole thread is so very relevant …👇
it's the same map
it's always the same map
it's always the same map
February 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A single map will never tell the whole story of a place. This whole thread is so very relevant …👇
🙌
February 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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