How to survive
Links for 3 July 2021
- The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather (Attention to the Unseen)
- Biden backs Dems into a corner on climate — “Climate activists … are worried that no one — including President JOE BIDEN and lawmakers on Capitol Hill — is doing enough to fix it, and as climate policies get swallowed up by the reconciliation process, they’re gearing up for a new pressure campaign to turn up the heat on Washington.” (POLITICO Playbook)
- How to survive in a permanent climate emergency (New York Magazine)
- The Dark Side of Solar Power — “… sustainable technology can least afford to be short-sighted about the waste it creates. A strategy for entering the circular economy is absolutely essential — and the sooner, the better.” (Harvard Business Review)
- Leaky Gas Pipeline Sparks an Inferno in the Gulf of Mexico(New York Times), Horrifying Massive Oil Pipeline Blaze Sets Gulf Of Mexico On Fire (Huffington Post)
- Inside the Insurrection on Congress (New York Times by way of Kottke)
- The demographic shift isn’t driving white people to the Right — “What liberals need to do is make a positive case for their values – toleration, neutrality, equality, proportionality and freedom from arbitrary infringements of liberty – on the merits. If they do not, and proceed as if this case were self-evident, then illiberal values such as nationalism, white supremacy, ethnocentrism, male superiority, religious fundamentalism, homophobia and the liberty to take advantage of the weak will surely take their place.” (Aeon)