In addition to helping with Georgia, anyone in Massachusetts make sure you call the Governor to ask that he sign the legistlature's new climate bill, S.2995. Can't help but wonder if the executive's announcement of a less ambitious plan a couple days ago wasn't meant to head off pressure to sign this better bill. 45% below 1990 levels by 2030 would be a very poor effort for a state with ample offshore wind and no local extractive resource lobby to contend with.
(One of many great things in that bill btw. is putting off the possibility of a wood burning power station by at least five years in the Environmental Justice community of Springfield, MA -- full disclosure: down the street from my asthmatic son.)
"A third exercise, designed in part by Mr. Bendell, was called “Death to the Experts.” Participants wrote down words that they associated with experts and threw the papers into a fire."
Ugghhhh the last thing we need is more distrust of experts. GTFO, first-time-climate dudes.
Yes - the First Time Climate Dudes mention in the NYT was the first time I'd heard of Heated, and I skeedaddled right over here. Love your writing, love your attitude, love reading climate reporting that isn't just hopeless. Also, I am really tired of being lectured by Michael Moore.
Welcome back! Glad you were able to get a very refreshing break. And happy to see Fish too!
The year feels like it's starting fast - lots of avenues to effect change. I've got more optimism than usual, and I think finding you and others with as much frustration and energy to make change is a big part of that. Happy New Year!
Very interesting dismissal of Jem Bendell and Deep Adaptation here, not based on reading it -- that's kind of weird, Emily, don't you think? As a scholar-activist in the global climate justice movement for the past decade, I took note when the original paper was published in 2018, followed the evolution of the perspective into a multifaceted movement of smart. engaged people, and the controversy that arose earlier this year alluded to in the NYT piece [which used your quote in a way that perhaps should have explicitly contained your reasoning, or perhaps non-reasoning since you are to this day unfamiliar with the paper and unaware that Jem is not a first-time climate dude, rendering your quote misleading in the context of the Times piece]. This is echoed in Pete's comment and link in this chat, which is similarly dismissive and cites a critique which has been pretty effectively responded to by the good folks at DA.
For more open-minded readers, I suggest they take a look and decide for themselves what the ideas and politics of DA have to offer to our existential effort to confront the climate crisis with clear thinking and open hearts. It's worth a look. We can discuss after Emily or one of the readers here actually engages with the perspective!
with warm wishes for you all in 2021 [pun inadvertently invoked]
So glad you are back. So happy to see Fish. And so terrified for tomorrow.
You're killing it!
Nice to see your letter in my inbox again.
In addition to helping with Georgia, anyone in Massachusetts make sure you call the Governor to ask that he sign the legistlature's new climate bill, S.2995. Can't help but wonder if the executive's announcement of a less ambitious plan a couple days ago wasn't meant to head off pressure to sign this better bill. 45% below 1990 levels by 2030 would be a very poor effort for a state with ample offshore wind and no local extractive resource lobby to contend with.
(One of many great things in that bill btw. is putting off the possibility of a wood burning power station by at least five years in the Environmental Justice community of Springfield, MA -- full disclosure: down the street from my asthmatic son.)
Deep Adaptation isn't worth reading, but the rebuttal is: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/faulty-science-doomism-and-flawed-conclusions-deep-adaptation/ It is a great example of why we have to keep up the fight and not allow ourselves to succumb to gloom and give up which can happen when you get overloaded with constant flow of bad climate news...
So excited to be back!
To be fair, the Weather Assistance Program is certified freaky.
JFC JEM BENDELL SOUNDS LIKE SUCH A SCAM ARTIST
from NYT:
"A third exercise, designed in part by Mr. Bendell, was called “Death to the Experts.” Participants wrote down words that they associated with experts and threw the papers into a fire."
Ugghhhh the last thing we need is more distrust of experts. GTFO, first-time-climate dudes.
Yes - the First Time Climate Dudes mention in the NYT was the first time I'd heard of Heated, and I skeedaddled right over here. Love your writing, love your attitude, love reading climate reporting that isn't just hopeless. Also, I am really tired of being lectured by Michael Moore.
Welcome back! Glad you were able to get a very refreshing break. And happy to see Fish too!
The year feels like it's starting fast - lots of avenues to effect change. I've got more optimism than usual, and I think finding you and others with as much frustration and energy to make change is a big part of that. Happy New Year!
welcome back! Also, is David Wallace-Wells a first time climate dude?
Very interesting dismissal of Jem Bendell and Deep Adaptation here, not based on reading it -- that's kind of weird, Emily, don't you think? As a scholar-activist in the global climate justice movement for the past decade, I took note when the original paper was published in 2018, followed the evolution of the perspective into a multifaceted movement of smart. engaged people, and the controversy that arose earlier this year alluded to in the NYT piece [which used your quote in a way that perhaps should have explicitly contained your reasoning, or perhaps non-reasoning since you are to this day unfamiliar with the paper and unaware that Jem is not a first-time climate dude, rendering your quote misleading in the context of the Times piece]. This is echoed in Pete's comment and link in this chat, which is similarly dismissive and cites a critique which has been pretty effectively responded to by the good folks at DA.
For more open-minded readers, I suggest they take a look and decide for themselves what the ideas and politics of DA have to offer to our existential effort to confront the climate crisis with clear thinking and open hearts. It's worth a look. We can discuss after Emily or one of the readers here actually engages with the perspective!
with warm wishes for you all in 2021 [pun inadvertently invoked]
John