Tag: climate change

How do you love a place that is sinking?

“There is no more urgent form of communication than going extinct.”

I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.

From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.

Six personal essays about or inspired by wildfire.

Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.

“The role of the cartographer isn’t just data analytics,” says Molly Burhans, an activist mapping the land assets of the Catholic Church. “It’s also storytelling.”

“’You’re going to see Georgia citrus become the next Vidalia onion,’ Franklin says. ‘Soon they’ll be in every grocery store around.’”

“The world should not, cannot, go back to business as usual without a clearer understanding and consciousness of how we live.”

“He frames what we don’t know about our planet and what lives on it as a thrilling mystery, an opportunity to learn rather than a problem too daunting or, worse, too late to confront.”

“It has become a disconcerting pattern for Thunberg appearances: Greta tells the adults they are fools and their plans are lame and shortsighted. They still give her a standing ovation.”

Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.

“And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”

The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change

“The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.

Knowing what we now know about global warming, is procreation irresponsible?

A family’s losses after Hurricane Sandy didn’t come in the usual order or with the usual speed.

“I wondered if Katrina was really a 14-year old boy named Emmett.”

What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?

Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”

This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.

We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.

From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.

Being an adult at the end of the world means listening to children tell the truths grown-ups refuse to actually hear.

Nell Zink, Joy Williams, and a different kind of climate skepticism.

Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?

Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can’t wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.

“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”