“Groundshine” is *definitely* the name of the next band I don’t start.
the cancers came from exposure to radioactivity on the job, including inhaling dust and radioactivity accumulated on the workplace floor, known as “groundshine.” Their own clothes, and even licking their lips or eating lunch, added exposure.
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/
STATON, District Judge, dissenting:
In these proceedings, the government accepts as fact that the United States has reached a tipping point crying out for a concerted response—yet presses ahead toward calamity. It is as if an asteroid were barreling toward Earth and the government decided to shut down our only defenses. Seeking to quash this suit, the government bluntly insists that it has the absolute and unreviewable power to destroy the Nation.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/read-fiery-dissent-childrens-climate-case/605296/
The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-water-foreverchemicals/u-s-drinking-water-widely-contaminated-with-forever-chemicals-report-idUSKBN1ZL0F8
Kid is *en fuego*. Of course, ‘Left=Right=Center’ is a little simplistic… but still:
https://earther.gizmodo.com/greta-thunbergs-message-to-capitalists-act-as-if-you-l-1841130508
Whee! Happy Friday.
The climate apocalypse is coming to your television. HBO announced Wednesday that the David Wallace-Wells’ book The Uninhabitable Earth will influence a fictional anthology series that examines what our future may look like as climate change progresses.
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/hbo-max-is-turning-the-uninhabitable-earth-into-a-ficti-1841048114
Our moment is radically exceptional in that a few hundred million people have been able to imagine real safety as the normal background of human life.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/becoming-parent-age-climate-crisis/604372/
She’s just… right.
It’s an epic saga in which they are the heroes, an apocalyptic sci-fi video game or movie in which a few good men will just get rid of the bad guys in the third act. No need to dismantle patriarchy and white supremacy, envision a different and better way of living, re-think economic and societal structures, or remove power over the fate of humanity from the hands of a self-interested few.
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In climate change, many of these elite white men might be experiencing their very first brush with imposed change, with a force beyond their control upending their lives; that might make them particularly ill-equipped to envision what’s next, let alone lead us there.
The story of climate change, both its history and its future, needs to be told by people who have already experienced injustice and disempowerment, people who are justifiably angry at the way the system works. And some of those stories are beginning to be told.
— Read on popula.com/2019/08/19/the-case-for-climate-rage/
Happy Saturday! Here is some information. For reference SSP3 should look both a) terrifying and b) increasingly familiar.
Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new “pathways” that examine how global society, demographics and economics might change over the next century. They are collectively known as the “Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” (SSPs).
— Read on www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-shared-socioeconomic-pathways-explore-future-climate-change
This is: great! Structural solutions! Organizing! Changing consumption habits = nice; fighting systems = effective.
Happy Friday!
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/opinion/how-to-help-climate-change.html
U! S! A! Moar roads for the win!
The move would ease approval for major infrastructure projects. It could mean federal agencies won’t need to consider climate impacts of things like pipelines and highways.
— Read on www.npr.org/2020/01/09/794857523/trump-administration-proposes-major-changes-to-bedrock-environmental-law