There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example--where had they gone? … On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring …
Category: Climate Emergency
Grief and Joy
Ah Friends, it's been an emotional sort of week. We are in moderate drought here at the moment. The garden is suffering in spite of James and I watering it; we can't water enough. New Cherry Tree has only ever made very tiny leaves and I don't know if these leaves are enough for them …
When Do We Start Blowing Stuff Up?
Andreas Malm asks in his book How to Blow Up a Pipeline, when do we start fighting against climate change with violence? He is quick to emphasize violence means property violence—destroying pipelines, private jets, private super yachts, letting air out of the tires of SUVs. He suggests peaceful protest has gotten us nowhere, that past …
Good COP, Bad COP
COP27 started yesterday in Egypt. Ahead of the conference, Egypt has been arresting activists, set up checkpoints where police randomly stop people to check their phones and social media accounts, created a complicated process for registering for the Green Zone, and are increasing surveillance by, among other things, installing video cameras in all of Sharm …
Seesaw
First snow viewed from my workplace Oh y’all, the weather doesn’t know what it wants to be. A few days after it was 80F it snowed. And then we had a colder than normal week. I put away all my warm weather clothes and packed my drawers with sweaters. And now I am typing this …
