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...
“What we do now will not only alter the course of this pandemic; it will also shape large parts of our collective futures.” — @EricHolthaus https://thecorrespondent.com/385/we-arent-just-stopping-coronavirus-were-building-a-new-world/50968856015-625b9768">https://thecorrespondent.com/385/we-ar...
We aren’t just stopping coronavirus. We’re building a new world

We must pressure our leaders to take the long view in any coronavirus economic recovery package, even if this feels like a short-term emergency.

https://thecorrespondent.com/385/we-arent-just-stopping-coronavirus-were-building-a-new-world/50968856015-625b9768
“But as the US became the epicenter of the global pandemic the White House ramped up its environmental agenda, halting virtually all the EPA’s enforcement of anti-pollution laws and approving new pipelines and mining projects.”— @AlexCKaufman https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-auto-emissions_n_5e834685c5b6d38d98a50868">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tru...
Trump Moves Forward On Biggest Environmental Rollback To Date Amid Pandemic Chaos

The administration unveiled its final rule to gut Obama-era auto emissions standards as the COVID-19 pandemic rages.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-auto-emissions_n_5e834685c5b6d38d98a50868
“More 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 ― IL, MN, MS, OH and PA ― but has not progressed in the past month.”— @AlexCKaufman https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pipeline-protest-laws-coronavirus_n_5e7e7570c5b6256a7a2aab41">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pip...
States Quietly Pass Laws Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protest Amid Coronavirus Chaos

Over the past two weeks, Kentucky, South Dakota and West Virginia approved new laws meant to discourage Dakota Access-style protests. More are on the way.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pipeline-protest-laws-coronavirus_n_5e7e7570c5b6256a7a2aab41
“If 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.”— @amywestervelt https://www.drillednews.com/post/will-pandemic-relief-become-a-petroleum-industry-slush-fund">https://www.drillednews.com/post/will...
Climate Accountability | Drilled News

Drilled News features climate accountability reporting across multiple verticals, investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

https://www.drillednews.com/post/will-pandemic-relief-become-a-petroleum-industry-slush-fund
“So, why is Exxon asking to be regulated? The answer may be simply that Exxon is very good at public relations.”— @JustinMikulka https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/16/exxon-write-rules-regulating-methane-emissions">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/1...
Exxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions

ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own efforts to do so.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/16/exxon-write-rules-regulating-methane-emissions
“It’s 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.”— @GiladEdelman https://www.wired.com/story/the-analogy-between-covid-19-and-climate-change-is-eerily-precise/">https://www.wired.com/story/the...
The Analogy Between Covid-19 and Climate Change Is Eerily Precise

First deny the problem, then say the solution is too expensive? The playbook here is all too familiar.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-analogy-between-covid-19-and-climate-change-is-eerily-precise/
“Both bring a sense of finality, that ‘nothing will ever be the same again.’ Both force me to accept the end of something big and precious and irreplaceable. And I don’t know what comes next.” — @MaryHeglar https://newrepublic.com/article/157059/climate-grief-taught-coronavirus">https://newrepublic.com/article/1...
What Climate Grief Taught Me About the Coronavirus

How to find humanity amid an ever-present dread

https://newrepublic.com/article/157059/climate-grief-taught-coronavirus
“As 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.”— @m_scribe https://newrepublic.com/article/157078/climate-crisis-will-just-shockingly-abrupt">https://newrepublic.com/article/1...
The Climate Crisis Will Be Just as Shockingly Abrupt

The coronavirus isn’t a reason to put climate policy on hold. It’s a warning of the calamities ahead.

https://newrepublic.com/article/157078/climate-crisis-will-just-shockingly-abrupt
“And therein lies the rub. How exactly do you get a coronavirus-style mobilization when it threatens the profits of a historically powerful minority?”— @amywestervelt https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-fossil-fuel-profits_n_5e786da4c5b6f5b7c547329e">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cor...
Why We'll Never Treat The Climate Crisis With The Same Urgency As The Coronavirus

The delayed COVID-19 response was met with swift condemnation. But outrage about the decades-long delay on climate change continues to be waved away as a...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-fossil-fuel-profits_n_5e786da4c5b6f5b7c547329e
“The 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.”— @JasonBordoff https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-pandemic-shows-why-no-global-progress-on-climate-change/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/2...
Sorry, but the Virus Shows Why There Won't Be Global Action on Climate Change

Extreme measures to fight the coronavirus have raised activists’ hopes for similarly drastic action on global warming. Here’s why they’re wrong.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-pandemic-shows-why-no-global-progress-on-climate-change/
“But you know what& #39;s not a silver lining of this pandemic? Fixing the climate crisis. We haven& #39;t fixed it, aren& #39;t fixing it, and the way we& #39;re talking about all of this is gross.”— @jdsutter https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/opinions/pandemic-not-fixing-climate-change-sutter/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/2...
The pandemic isn't fixing climate change

John Sutter writes that any talk about the coronavirus pandemic fixing the climate crisis is misleading. We haven't fixed it, aren't fixing it -- and the way we're talking about all of this is gross....

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/opinions/pandemic-not-fixing-climate-change-sutter/index.html
“Firefighters 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.” — @KendraWrites https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/climate/coronavirus-firefighters-wildfires.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
How the Coronavirus Crisis May Hinder Efforts to Fight Wildfires

As many firefighters should be preparing for wildfire season, they are grappling with the fact that how they live and work could spread the coronavirus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/climate/coronavirus-firefighters-wildfires.html
“The 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.”— @jloistf https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like-in-an-era-of-cov-1842539967">https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-is-w...
This Is What Climate Change Looks Like in an Era of Covid-19

As the coronavirus pandemic continued to escalate around the world, a more localized emergency has unfolded in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like-in-an-era-of-cov-1842539967
“The 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 won’t return, and the corals will starve.” — @themadstone https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mxmg/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-2020">https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...
The Great Barrier Reef Is Heading for a Mass Bleaching of Unprecedented Scale

Forecasts for the largest living structure on Earth have become "devastating," scientists say, and the coral carnage will be even more widespread than the last mass bleaching in 2016-2017.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mxmg/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-2020
“Because wealthier people turn to more energy intensive goods, the energy gap rises even faster than the income gap.”— @drvox https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/20/21184814/climate-change-energy-income-inequality">https://www.vox.com/energy-an...
Why rich people use so much more energy

It’s mainly all the traveling, says a comprehensive new study.

https://www.votwitter.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/20/21184814/climate-change-energy-income-inequality
“The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.”— @scottberinato w/ @EricHolthaus’ #StandOutPiece https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief">https://hbr.org/2020/03/t...
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.

https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief
“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”
—Mark Strand w/ @amywestervelt’s #StandOutPiece https://poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-motion/keeping-things-whole">https://poetrysociety.org/poetry-in...
Keeping Things Whole

https://poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-motion/keeping-things-whole
“It 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.”— @meehancrist w/ @MaryHeglar’s #StandOutPiece https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
Opinion | What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change

Lockdowns and distancing won’t save the world from warming. But amid this crisis, we have a chance to build a better future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html
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