Icelandic gutpunch

	Robin Young ⁦‪@hereandnowrobin‬⁩ #Iceland s ⁦‪@AndriMagnason‬⁩ is one of my fav guests ever, and now his new book #TimeAndWater is out in english! "to get kids to take #ClimateAction, ask, when will your grandchildren, who you will love more than anyone, live until?"gutpunch. wbur.fm/3eMDEyD via ⁦‪@hereandnow‬⁩   4/26/21, 5:42 PM

“Most humans dead...”

	Ben See ⁦‪@ClimateBen‬⁩ Remember: 1. Global crop failures by 2°C. 2. Most humans dead by 4°C. 3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C. 4. We risk 2°C by 2035. 5. We risk 4°C by 2065. 6. We risk 6°C by 2095. One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.   4/24/21, 2:41 PM

Biden’s climate moonshot

On Thursday and Friday of last week, April 22 and 23, President Biden convened a virtual meeting of 40 world leaders to discuss addressing climate change. It is no longer possible to ignore changes in the world's climate: the last decade was the hottest in recorded history, and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached record levels. Arctic ice is melting; last summer's fires in Australia, California, and Colorado were catastrophic...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2021?r=iqpjt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email

Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment

...According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, bitcoin-mining operations worldwide now use energy at the rate of nearly a hundred and twenty terawatt-hours per year. This is about the annual domestic electricity consumption of the entire nation of Sweden. According to the Web site Digiconomist, a single bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of power that the average American household consumes in a month, and is responsible for roughly a million times more carbon emissions than a single Visa transaction. At a time when the world desperately needs to cut carbon emissions, does it make sense to be devoting a Sweden’s worth of electricity to a virtual currency? The answer would seem, pretty clearly, to be no. And, yet, here we are...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-bitcoin-is-bad-for-the-environment?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker

Earth from space

Without the first photographs of the earth from space, there would be no #EarthDay.
https://t.co/x1maRCNjCA
(https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1385378135324119043?s=02)

How long? Not long

	Bill McKibben ⁦‪@billmckibben‬⁩ Not surprisingly, ⁦‪@GretaThunberg‬⁩ was great speaking to Congress today. She and ⁦‪@xiyebastida‬⁩ have had the most serious remarks of Earth Day; time for some elders to match their fire.   4/22/21, 12:49 PM

Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu

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Earth Day

We Were Born To Be Wild
Earth Day is a reminder that we are living creatures all the same.

...Many people no longer feel a connection to the natural world because they no longer feel themselves to be a part of it. We've come to think of nature as something that exists a car ride away. We don't even know the names of the trees in our own yards.

Nature is all around us anyway, and I'm not talking about just the songbirds and the cottontail rabbits in any suburban neighborhood. I'm talking about the coyote holed up in a bathroom at Nashville's downtown convention center; the red-tailed hawks nesting in Manhattan; the raccoon climbing a skyscraper in St. Paul, Minn.; the black bear lounging in a Gatlinburg, Tenn., hot tub; the eastern box turtle knocking on my friend Mary Laura Philpott's front door.

These encounters remind us that we are surrounded by creatures as unique in their own ways as we are in ours. And our delight in their antics tells us something about ourselves, too. We may believe we are insulated from the natural world by our structures and our vehicles and our poisons, but we are animals all the same.

Thursday is Earth Day, and even if you can't observe it by planting trees or pulling trash out of nearby streams, this week is a good time to remember that it's never too late to become a naturalist. And the first step is simply waking up to our own need for the very world we have tried to shut out so completely.

For we belong to one another — to the house finches and the climbing raccoons and the door-knocking turtles and the bathing bears. Recognizing that kinship will do more than keep our fellow creatures safer. It will also keep us safer, and make us happier, too.

Margaret Renkl
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/opinion/earth-day-nature-environment.html?smid=em-share

"Climate is everything "

For TIME's cover, artist Red Hong Yi and her team constructed a 7.5 x 10-foot world map out of 50,000 matchsticks.

"She then set the artwork on fire—representing how the global climate crisis touches all of us, no matter where we live," writes @dwpine https://t.co/KUTa93aMki
(https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1383405269959405571?s=02)

Living in a World in Which Nature Has Already Lost

Second Nature, by Nathaniel Rich

On average, an American man puts 85 man-made chemicals into his body every day, while an American woman takes in nearly twice that amount.

Rich tourists pay top dollar for disaster tours to gawk at New Orleans's Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, where the people who have remained struggle to survive.

In Aspen, Colo., dogs fly in private jets to "Billionaire Mountain" to join their owners in multimillion-dollar homes for two weeks of the year.

Cattle exposed to DuPont's toxic chemicals drool uncontrollably and birth stillborn calves. Their teeth turn black, and blood gushes from their noses, mouths and rectums. When they are cut open, they are found to be filled with giant tumors, collapsed veins and green muscles...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/books/review/nathaniel-rich-second-nature.html?referringSource=articleShare

Shared from BBC:How mammoths could fight climate change

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p09cdh9z/how-mammoths-could-be-our-surprising-climate-saviours?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter&ocid=ww.social.link.email

Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu

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