The pope v the UN: who will save the world first?
Everyone, it seems, recognises that Pope Francis’s encyclical is a striking document. But to really appreciate its significance, it’s worth contrasting it with another document that purports to tackle the same challenge: the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs have emerged from a long, complex process, stretching over the past four years. They are hanging on a promise to be able to eradicate “all poverty, in all its forms, everywhere” by 2030, and to do so in a way that moves us to a more environmentally sustainable economy.
Inventing Climate-Change Literature
How to write about what we’re doing to the planet? In what genre, what form? I grew up outside of a small town in northwestern Colorado, and in recent years spruce and pine beetles have devastated forests throughout the Rockies, turning evergreen slopes a dead maroon. Beetles have always attacked and killed the trees there, just as the Atlantic Ocean has always bred hurricanes and droughts have scoured California. The difference—which we give the bland name climate change—lies in the new frequency and intensity of these events. A 2013 study from the University of Colorado found that drought and warmer sea-surface temperatures best explain the trees’ increased susceptibility to the beetles, and warmer and drier conditions are almost certainly what the coming decades have in store for the American West.
Debate on Cli-Fi - NYTimes.com
J. P. Telotte is a professor of film and media studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the author, most recently, of "Science Fiction TV." The 1930s saw numerous science fiction films centered around apocalyptic, sometimes climatic, destruction: “La Fin du Monde” (France, 1931) predicted a comet’s collision with the Earth; “Deluge” (United States, 1933) was the story of a giant tsunami resulting in a worldwide flood; “Things to Come” (England, 1936) predicted world war and a civilization-destroying plague; “S.O.S.
Paul Kingsnorth: Hope in the Age of Collapse
Sometimes – rarely – online debate can be useful. This was one example. This email debate with American journalist Wen Stephenson, about the current state of the world and what can be done about it, was prompted by his scepticism about my essay Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist. It’s a rare example of an online exchange leading to an interesting and grown-up discussion, rather than a bad-tempered slanging match. You can read the debate, complete with Wen’s personal introduction, on his Thoreau Farm website. Dear Paul,
Students Across the World Are Protesting on Friday. Why?
What began as one student’s vigil calling for action on climate change has gone global, with school strikes planned in more than 100 countries on Friday. Here is a look at how the climate protests spread and how political leaders are responding. [See pictures from the youth strikes around the world.]
Spider the Artist - Online Short Story
Zombie no go go, unless you tell am to go Zombie! Zombie! Zombie no go stop, unless you tell am to stop Zombie no go turn, unless you tell am to turn Zombie!
Radical Paganism
Jason Pitzl-Waters’ recent op-ed piece in The Wild Hunt is fucking excellent. … I stayed a Pagan because it also promised me a world, a culture, remade. A world where multiplicity, diversity, was honored. A world where a singular, all-powerful, male-pronouned, deity was replaced with innumerable pantheons of powers. A world where there was Goddess.
May 2019 - The rich getting richer under climate change, study reveals
How global warming has made the rich richer Pablo Uchoa (BBC World Service, 06/05/2019) Temperatures may be rising globally, but not all of us feel the impact in the same way. Over the past half century, climate change has increased inequality between countries, dragging down growth in the poorest nations whilst likely boosting prosperity in some of the richest, a new study says.
The NewYorker Acrticle - Scenes from a Melting Planet
“We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” President Obama said last week as he outlined his climate-change plan. The gibe was widely tweeted and repeated, the message clear: when it comes to global warming, Obama won’t tolerate any more anti-science bunk. He will direct the Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, adapt the country’s infrastructure to protect against extreme weather, and use federal funds to increase renewable-energy production. To justify all this, the President cited recent national disasters, like Hurricane Sandy, the worst wildfires in recorded history, and the most severe droughts since the Dust Bowl. He even mentioned a long-running drought that has “forced a town to truck in water from the outside.”
What Shade of Green are You?
Part 1: The Spectrum of a Movement The environment movement has, of late, become all but subsumed by the climate movement. I point this out not because climate doesn’t matter, but because it’s not the only thing that does. I fear that many important challenges are going unaddressed due to lack of attention. And I fear that our tactics are narrowing in scope, shunning direct action and favouring populism.
Nov 2018 - Extinction Rebellion Protest in London Against Climate Change
Demonstrators block roads to demand action on climate change (ITV News, 24/11/2018) Environmental activists blocked roads and swarmed landmarks in London calling on the "ecocidal Government" to take rapid action to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change. Hundreds of members of the Extinction Rebellion group wore black funereal clothing and laid wreaths to "commemorate and grieve" the loss of animal and human life due to climate change on Saturday.
Save the world! by guiraudie.monteil on Genially
ERROR,TRYAGAIN,Back,Photos,All the photos used were taken randomly from different urbex websites. I hope the photographers will forgive me but I am not making money out of this serious game.,Thanks,First I would like to thank all my students. I made this game for you and I hope you enjoyed it. Then my partner and my cats who went crazy because I spent too much time making it.Finally the FB groups "Le Coin des Profs d'Anglais" and "Escape'n Games" who are always supportive and helped me take this first step into gamification. Mrs Guiraudie, Lycée Monteil (12), France May 2020,CONGRATULATIONS!
