[…] Although the principles of international climate diplomacy suggest that poorer countries, being less responsible for climate change, have less duty to go green, many face strong economic incentives to do so anyway. Most countries in the global south are energy importers, and therefore must use scarce foreign currency to buy oil and gas. […]
Tag: climate change
To-Do List No. 3
[…] If you want happiness
you must remind yourself
that you are valuable.
God gave you feet for a reason,
and cars are damned expensive!
World Ocean Review 8 is Out: The Ocean – A Climate Champion? How to Boost Marine Carbon Dioxide Uptake
The World Ocean Review has released World Ocean Review 8: The Ocean – A Climate Champion? How to Boost Marine Carbon Dioxide Uptake. This is a peer-reviewed (but not original research) publication which is put together like a textbook accessible for a general reading audience. You can read it online, download it as one or several PDFs, or order a paper copy free of charge (and free shipping!).
GoFundMe: Buy 1,000 Postcard Stamps and Defeat Fascism!
The AI is not wrong: The author is seeking financial aid for an activism project aimed at ensuring Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, among other goals. They have purchased postcards but need assistance to fast-track the acquisition of stamps, which is currently requiring significant financial restraint. The project’s detailed explanation can be found via a provided GoFundMe link. Some images to be included on the postcards cannot fully extend to the edges due to potential printing issues. The author posted this in the early hours of the morning, emphasizing the urgency of their request.
Cryptogram of Cosmic Glue (excerpt)
[…] methodically scribbling, we take for our alpha the zero point void, construct via anti-sense entangling photons, up is down & down is sideways & sideways is topwise & topwise is looking-glass-ways; : What Spirit? World Spirit!! Enduring ever, even if the land people burn out the globesphere & the dolphin people, even so, Mother Gaia, & Spider Mother, they grow a new intelligence; it is as Star Goddess made them; […]
Ocean Summit / 30% Protected by 2030 goal
Over 8,000 people attended, with free registration and no travel, something that would have been impossible before Covid moved everything to video conference. One presenter noted that last years’ virtual UN World Ocean Forum had over 60,000 daily attendees. There seems to be a lot of momentum behind the 30/30 goal of protecting 30% of the oceans by the year 2030. The proportion has doubled to 7.5% in the last decade.
Disasterland in Feedback Loops
From Now You See It: How to write about the natural world when it’s vanishing before your eyes. by Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker, October 15th, 2018: He gives the perennial sea ice until 2030 or so. ‘That the Arctic Ocean will become free of sea ice in late Summer to early Autumn is […]
That in itself is a triumph…
Orioles flit by In the spring dew Night was not endless Recall how our techno-world all folded up Like a jetliner folds up into a pill case Dropped in a sewer grate How long can the blue sky last? How long have we left on this Earth For all with eyes to see and ears […]
First, Awareness
Feathering my new pages Notebook of two three months still lost Yet press on Do not become more like others Become more of yourself Put something on the line, any little thing Heat set to 68 70 72 74 makes a big difference when millions of times over Roll like a smoker Windows down spring […]
One. Simple. Thing.
Sharpening the pencils And then re-tracing the vibes Alerts ripple through your being And all your escapes are locked off One way on the planet One way to survive One way to thrive Now that you know Hear this one, simple, thing:
Lost in Mist 