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Freezing Our Asses Off at the Feet of Al Gore

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An essay first posted at GetUnderground.com and BlueOlives back in 2006 that is still highly relevant here in 2022.

Still from An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (Handout)

Dateline: August 2006 –The last time my wife Marion and I went on a date was back in 1990–before $3.00 gallons of gasoline; before the Prius; before the iPod; before the World Wide Web; before frickin’ Harry Potter. We saw the movie Darkman. Marion was so disgusted by the opening scene where the super bad guy, Robert Durant, cuts off a small-time hood’s finger with a cigar trimmer, that she walked out of the packed theater (I got her to come back, and there were no more problems, but it was a boring movie–very dark, but that’s about it). We were just past the age of 30 back then and it felt like we had the world by the tail. Nothing was dark to us except movies, novels, and closets. 

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Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action

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Climate Divestment Whose Side

This spring Swarthmore College’s students, alumni and faculty stood up to demand that the school’s Board of Managers (their trustees) divest funding in fossil fuel businesses and technologies. I reported on that here in “The State of the War on Climate Change” a few weeks ago. The Board of Managers voted down that option just days later.

What I also reported on in that essay was that this is just the beginning of campus actions to divest in Continue reading →

The State of the War on Climate Change: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

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Bill McKibben (Source: 350.org)
Bill McKibben (Source: 350.org)

Talking Writing magazine just posted an interview I did with climate activist and environmental journalist Bill McKibben called “We Don’t Require Leaders.” I urge you to go check it out. McKibben surprised me with some of his answers. The whole climate equation and how it impacts culture and politics is not simple or predictable.

I did a lot of research for my interview. You can never get in all your questions. Nor can you make all the points you want to make in your interview introduction. I want to add a bit here, then, if that’s okay. It’s my contribution this week to what will likely otherwise be a finger snapping coverage of Earth Day by mainstream media. Continue reading →