Climate change is already creating climate refugees and some of them are us. And more will be in the future.
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/02/climate-change-migration-us-wildfires
Tag: climate change
We broke down what climate change will do, region by region | Grist
This article is from November, 2018. Read it anyway.
Birds Sing to Their Eggs, and This Song Might Help Their Babies Survive Climate Change | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
Australian Zebra Finches use their voices to change how their chicks will grow before they hatch out of their eggs! Wild!
We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change – The On Being Project
Kate Marvel captures and expresses my feelings here:
We need courage, not hope. Grief, after all, is the cost of being alive. We are all fated to live lives shot through with sadness, and are not worth less for it. Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending. Little molecules, random in their movement, add together to a coherent whole. Little lives do not. But here we are, together on a planet radiating ever more into space where there is no darkness, only light we cannot see.
Nobody is Coming to Save Us From Climate Change – by Maria Stoian | The Nib
Jacobabad’s Extreme Heat Could Become the World’s New Normal | Time
This is not hyperbole. This is bad news.
‘High likelihood of human civilisation coming to end’ by 2050, report finds | The Independent
This needs to be part of the discussion.
‘We Should Be Retreating Already From the Coastline,’ Scientist Suggests After Finding Warm Waters Below Greenland – EcoWatch
Question of the Century: Do We Have a Right to a Livable Climate? | The Revelator
This article lays out some of the legal challenges and promises of the Juliana v. United States case. It’s worth reading, I believe, and it gives me simultaneously nervous and hopeful feelings.
“What Was It Like When Oxygen Appeared And Almost Murdered All Life On Earth?” | Forbes
The time scale in this is mind boggling!
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