Thanks for global perspective. That context hadn't hit me yet.
I'm at my wits end. The abusive partner, "why did you make me do this" vibes are just off the charts at a societal level. The number one purveyor of fear, hatred, and implications of violence gets shot at and the response is "everyone needs to calm down" The level of projection going on, it's hard to believe this is real sometimes, and how on earth do you get traction on the real issues we need to deal with (like climate) in this kind of atmosphere.
Then you remind me that some people have been up against far worse than this and keep at it. So, keep at it.
This is the absolute best piece I have read about the shooting anywhere. Thank you bringing up the murders and assassinations of people in the global south in context to this event, and the threat people have there in their environmental activism.
And I know you already know this, but it is practically every issue with conservatives. For example look at the rhetoric and actions directed towards LGBTQ+ people from conservatives, in particular trans people, and now we are being asked to "tone the rhetoric down", or not call what conservatives explicitly do and believe dangerous? It is such bullshit and a strategy to downplay conservatives real beliefs for the election, to make it seem not so bad.
Conservatives are a direct threat to the people I care most about, particularly my trans friends and I'm going to continue to speak out as forcefully as a can to the danger they represent and work to remove them from all forms of power.
Thank you for giving voice to the plight of Indigenous and local community environmental defenders around the globe. That's one of the issues the nonprofit I work for focuses our efforts on - https://eia.org/campaigns/forests/defenders/.
Well said Emily. Other than my wife and 3 daughters you and Katherine Hayhoe are the only ones that keep me from getting completely unhinged when it comes to Trump and Climate.
I agree, killing someone like Trump only makes them a martyr and that is the last thing the U.S needs right now. What we do need is better leadership than what we currently have. I am at a loss as to where we are going to get it now though.
We are in existential times as far as the ecosystems are concerned. Without government assistance, it is all going to fade away by the end of this century. I hope something positive comes around in the next few years or we will all be looking for food in all the wrong places.
I agree completely. I disagree with violence, but I agree with calling for action and calling something dangerous and calamitous that obviously is destroying the climate and causing death and destruction to others.
A point of view I won't be getting from the main stream media. Excellent.
Good to see Fish "wrapped in the Flag!" Other climate activists should do the same more often. Abbie Hoffman did. I fly two modified American flags, one Betsy Ross flag with a silhouette of a wind turbine inside the circle of stars, another with the 50 stars replaced with "solar panels" oriented towards a yellow sun in the upper corner. My answer to "American oil from American soil."
Though I've never flown them with Half Dome (I think) in the background.
Another amazing post today, which I cited in my own post! I included an action that might interest you concerning how weather and climate reporting should be explicitly linked.
I appreciate a lot of your perspective here, Emily, but I also feel as though calling the United States "a functional democracy" really feels like American exceptionalism at odds with the evidence all around us. Violence against land defenders and Indigenous people should not be exceptionalized as a practice of the Global South. Of course, honor and lift up Apu Quinto Inoma Alvarado, but also honor and lift up Tortuguita here. America practices political violence daily; it's just most of our violence is rendered invisible because we call it legal and legitimate. Until we stop treating what we are continually doing as somehow "not [reflective of] who we are", we will continue to on the path that we are on.
Thanks for global perspective. That context hadn't hit me yet.
I'm at my wits end. The abusive partner, "why did you make me do this" vibes are just off the charts at a societal level. The number one purveyor of fear, hatred, and implications of violence gets shot at and the response is "everyone needs to calm down" The level of projection going on, it's hard to believe this is real sometimes, and how on earth do you get traction on the real issues we need to deal with (like climate) in this kind of atmosphere.
Then you remind me that some people have been up against far worse than this and keep at it. So, keep at it.
Disposable people and degraded landscapes make refugees for kleptocrats and American presidents.
A totally sane response to a generally appalling situation, Emily, thank you!
One of the most sensible comments on the shooting - thank you
This is the absolute best piece I have read about the shooting anywhere. Thank you bringing up the murders and assassinations of people in the global south in context to this event, and the threat people have there in their environmental activism.
And I know you already know this, but it is practically every issue with conservatives. For example look at the rhetoric and actions directed towards LGBTQ+ people from conservatives, in particular trans people, and now we are being asked to "tone the rhetoric down", or not call what conservatives explicitly do and believe dangerous? It is such bullshit and a strategy to downplay conservatives real beliefs for the election, to make it seem not so bad.
Conservatives are a direct threat to the people I care most about, particularly my trans friends and I'm going to continue to speak out as forcefully as a can to the danger they represent and work to remove them from all forms of power.
Thank you for giving voice to the plight of Indigenous and local community environmental defenders around the globe. That's one of the issues the nonprofit I work for focuses our efforts on - https://eia.org/campaigns/forests/defenders/.
Such important work - thank you ❤️
Well said Emily. Other than my wife and 3 daughters you and Katherine Hayhoe are the only ones that keep me from getting completely unhinged when it comes to Trump and Climate.
I agree, killing someone like Trump only makes them a martyr and that is the last thing the U.S needs right now. What we do need is better leadership than what we currently have. I am at a loss as to where we are going to get it now though.
We are in existential times as far as the ecosystems are concerned. Without government assistance, it is all going to fade away by the end of this century. I hope something positive comes around in the next few years or we will all be looking for food in all the wrong places.
You remain one of my favorite humans, Emily
Awww thank you David!
Well said.
I agree completely. I disagree with violence, but I agree with calling for action and calling something dangerous and calamitous that obviously is destroying the climate and causing death and destruction to others.
A point of view I won't be getting from the main stream media. Excellent.
Good to see Fish "wrapped in the Flag!" Other climate activists should do the same more often. Abbie Hoffman did. I fly two modified American flags, one Betsy Ross flag with a silhouette of a wind turbine inside the circle of stars, another with the 50 stars replaced with "solar panels" oriented towards a yellow sun in the upper corner. My answer to "American oil from American soil."
Though I've never flown them with Half Dome (I think) in the background.
Thank you so much for this, Emily!!
Another amazing post today, which I cited in my own post! I included an action that might interest you concerning how weather and climate reporting should be explicitly linked.
I appreciate a lot of your perspective here, Emily, but I also feel as though calling the United States "a functional democracy" really feels like American exceptionalism at odds with the evidence all around us. Violence against land defenders and Indigenous people should not be exceptionalized as a practice of the Global South. Of course, honor and lift up Apu Quinto Inoma Alvarado, but also honor and lift up Tortuguita here. America practices political violence daily; it's just most of our violence is rendered invisible because we call it legal and legitimate. Until we stop treating what we are continually doing as somehow "not [reflective of] who we are", we will continue to on the path that we are on.
Or, if you want this comment in humor form: https://theneedling.com/2024/06/14/our-country-is-better-than-this-says-country-that-has-never-been-better-than-this/
Absolutely fair! I'll check myself for that