Relating to posts centered on extinction, threatened or actual.
Photo Credit: Ivan Radic We human beings are animals, like millions of other species who move about the earth, communicate vocally and visually, gather, harvest, and/or hunt other species for food, and manipulate pieces of … Read more
Climate grief is a confrontation of the cruel irrationality of the Anthropocene. I grieve when one of Antarctica’s largest emperor penguin colonies has seen all of its chicks die for three years in a row …
I became involved with XR PDX just after it started up a few years ago, in 2019. We were riding the success of XR UK’s impressive shutdowns of London. So, lots of people were excited … Read more
It is logical that the central focus of climate action should directly confront the main contributor to climate change, the use of fossil fuels to provide by primary institutional consumers such as industry and other … Read more
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is (finally!) investigating Canadian corporation Enbridge for its 28 drilling fluid spills at 12 river crossings, totaling to more than 10,000 gallons of toxic drilling fluids along with mud. … Read more
We – the entire human and non-human populations of Earth – are now officially in the “We’re F****d” stage of climate crisis. Extinction Rebellion UK called it first, but the IPCC Report that dropped on Monday … Read more
A planet without social justice is not worth having. I made this statement to someone, almost reflexively, in response to something they said to me. What they said and why requires a little background. I … Read more
NBC News: “Portland, Oregon soared to 116 degrees – hotter than Dallas, Miami and L.A. have ever been” The Guardian: “The hot weather had berry farmers scrambling to pick crops before they rot on the … Read more
As Texas is crushed by surreal winter storms mere months after the entire West coast was consumed by wildfires, it can be easy to feel despair over the fate of our planet, to feel like … Read more
If you haven’t checked out our Climate Information Resources page, now is the time! This continuously updated library is a collection of everything you need to keep up to date with climate science and the … Read more