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Coming soon: our promised episode with @EricHolthaus where @amywestervelt and @MaryHeglar talk corona, climate, how to check your privilege, and what comes next. Stay tuned, and get ready. Readings below....Lots of them...
âWhat we do now will not only alter the course of this pandemic; it will also shape large parts of our collective futures.â â @EricHolthaus https://thecorrespondent.com/385/we-arent-just-stopping-coronavirus-were-building-a-new-world/50968856015-625b9768
âBut as the US became the epicenter of the global pandemic the White House ramped up its environmental agenda, halting virtually all the EPAâs enforcement of anti-pollution laws and approving new pipelines and mining projects.ââ @AlexCKaufman https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-auto-emissions_n_5e834685c5b6d38d98a50868
âMore bills are on the way. The AL state Senate passed its own version on 3/12. Similar legislation is active in at least five other states â IL, MN, MS, OH and PA â but has not progressed in the past month.ââ @AlexCKaufman https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pipeline-protest-laws-coronavirus_n_5e7e7570c5b6256a7a2aab41
âIf all moves forward as Trump, Mnuchin, and many senators and representatives hope it will, the coronavirus bailout will help the fossil fuel industry paper over years and years of bad financial decisions.ââ @amywestervelt https://www.drillednews.com/post/will-pandemic-relief-become-a-petroleum-industry-slush-fund
âSo, why is Exxon asking to be regulated? The answer may be simply that Exxon is very good at public relations.ââ @JustinMikulka https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/16/exxon-write-rules-regulating-methane-emissions
âItâs frightening to think what the pattern of climate denial means for the coronavirus crisis. But it might be even more terrifying to think what the pattern of coronavirus denial means for the climate crisis.ââ @GiladEdelman https://www.wired.com/story/the-analogy-between-covid-19-and-climate-change-is-eerily-precise/
âBoth bring a sense of finality, that ânothing will ever be the same again.â Both force me to accept the end of something big and precious and irreplaceable. And I donât know what comes next.â â @MaryHeglar https://newrepublic.com/article/157059/climate-grief-taught-coronavirus
âAs with the pandemic, responses to climate change have often emphasized individual action. But both crises require the kind of large-scale structural interventions produced by national and international policies.ââ @m_scribe https://newrepublic.com/article/157078/climate-crisis-will-just-shockingly-abrupt
âAnd therein lies the rub. How exactly do you get a coronavirus-style mobilization when it threatens the profits of a historically powerful minority?ââ @amywestervelt https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-fossil-fuel-profits_n_5e786da4c5b6f5b7c547329e
âThe pandemic is a reminder of just how wicked a problem climate change is because it requires collective action, public understanding & buy-in, & decarbonizing the energy mix while supporting economic growth & energy use around the world.ââ @JasonBordoff https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-pandemic-shows-why-no-global-progress-on-climate-change/
âBut you know what's not a silver lining of this pandemic? Fixing the climate crisis. We haven't fixed it, aren't fixing it, and the way we're talking about all of this is gross.ââ @jdsutter https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/opinions/pandemic-not-fixing-climate-change-sutter/index.html
âFirefighters are finding themselves squeezed from both sides: their close living and working conditions often allow for viruses to spread, but if they are subject to a quarantine, they are not available for emergency calls.â â @KendraWrites https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/climate/coronavirus-firefighters-wildfires.html
âThe global focus on the pandemic is completely understandable. But it is vital this does not mean the ongoing impacts of climate change are buried behind the headlines or ignored by governments.ââ @jloistf https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like-in-an-era-of-cov-1842539967
âThe Great Barrier Reef has been running a fever, w/ temperatures along the 1,400 mile-long ecosystem hovering a degree Celsius or more above normal. If the water remains warm for too long, the algae wonât return, and the corals will starve.â â @themadstone https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mxmg/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-2020
âBecause wealthier people turn to more energy intensive goods, the energy gap rises even faster than the income gap.ââ @drvox https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/20/21184814/climate-change-energy-income-inequality
âThe loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and weâre grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.ââ @scottberinato w/ @EricHolthausâ #StandOutPiece https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief
âWe all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.â
âMark Strand w/ @amywesterveltâs #StandOutPiece https://poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-motion/keeping-things-whole
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.â
âMark Strand w/ @amywesterveltâs #StandOutPiece https://poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-motion/keeping-things-whole
âIt is tempting to say that humans are a pox on the Earth. That where we recede, nature rebounds. [But] Humans are part of nature, not separate from it.ââ @meehancrist w/ @MaryHeglarâs #StandOutPiece https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html
