The other day Bill McKibben posted an essay on his blog titled Inertia is a problem too in which he says: But there’s another force at work alongside Interest [Big Oil, etc.,], and that’s Inertia, defined as the force that has kept you from, say, ever cleaning the coil on the bottom of your fridge, …
Category: Climate Emergency
Choose Joy
Joy n. ME [Middle English] 1. Vivid pleasure arising from a sense of well-being or satisfaction; exultation; gladness, delight 2. A pleasurable, happy, or felicitous state or condition; esp. the bliss or blessedness of heaven.Shorter OED About 17 years ago, not long after James was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and I still went to his …
Variety Pack
We are in the midst of a thaw, and over the weekend I spent a day and half sniffling and sneezing and feeling blah, wondering whether I had COVID/a sinus infection/a cold before I realized it was allergies. Generally it takes a near complete snow melt before the allergies start up, but I guess any …
How NOT to Avoid a Climate Disaster
I finished How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates a couple weeks ago but had to let it sit for awhile so I could write about it without losing my shit. Gates tries to pull off a folksy, easy to read, golly we can do this tone that made me bristle every time …
No Escape
When James and I moved from Los Angeles to the Twin Cities back in 1994 we were astonished at how inexpensive houses and land were out here. We ourselves still couldn’t afford it, but we thought in time we might be able to buy a 10-acre hobby farm just outside the city for the low, …
