My second nights to self in a row are usually much more chill, and this one is also.  But I haven't glommed onto video like I often do on my second night.  Second nights have often been movie or TV binging, but not this time.  I listened to some audiobooks for a while and now switched to music on the fucking $$$$$ stereo LOL ( Read more... )

The Green Party's version, AKA The Ecosocialist Green New Dealhttps://howiehawkins.us/ecosocialist-green-new-deal/Read more... )

The center of the storm is coming pretty close to our house -- the hourly wind forecast for today demonstrates this, we're going to have wind from almost every direction, first from NE, then N, then NW, then W, then SW, then S ... the only directions we're not gonna get are E & SE ( Read more... )

Evidence suggests that the planet was once significantly more habitable than it is today.

we take our own planet's future habitability for granted

Worlds end all the time.A star explodes somewhere in the known universe about once per day ( Read more... )

A very small number have enjoyed great wealth over the last two centuries at the expense of virtually everyone else. A relatively tiny elite has made it clear that they will fight to the death-even if that means everyone else’s-to hold onto the privilege that exploiting fossil fuels affords them. So it’s not an abstract question of creating a ( Read more... )

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert :

Forward!

Something haunts many activists, anarchists, environmentalists, many of my friends. It haunted me. Much of our subcultures tell us it’s not there, that we can’t see it, hear it. Our best ( Read more... )

Two more days of this obnoxious late-July summer heat & humidity before we catch a break ( Read more... )

Before Wall Street (in NYC) became the location of a stock exchange, it hosted the city's first slave market ( Read more... )

We haven’t yet invented a language to describe the level of catastrophe that we are facilitating. The concept of eco-collapse is something we’ve never experienced as a species-not on this scale. And we are using these weak-tea scientific words to try to talk about what’s happening, but those ideas aren’t penetrating an increasingly manipulated, ( Read more... )

Global greenhouse gas emissions have grown by 1.5 percent every year over the last decade, according to an annual assessment, the Emissions Gap Report, which is produced by the United Nations Environment Program. The opposite must happen if the world is to avoid the worst effects of climate change, including more intense droughts, stronger storms ( Read more... )