Climate and World Change Proposal

[David Lockmiller]

There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way.

[David Lockmiller]

"As record heat scorches western Russia and central Canada, climate alarm bells ring"

Washington Post, byJason Samenow, May 20, 2021

Temperatures are already close to 90 degrees near the Arctic Circle, while wildfires rage in Canada’s interior provinces.

It’s only May, and temperatures near the Arctic Circle in northwestern Russia are approaching 90 degrees. In Moscow, temperatures have shattered records on consecutive days.

On Thursday, the mercury surged to 87.8 degrees in Naryan-Mar, Russia, a town near the Arctic Ocean and almost 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow. The temperature shattered the previous monthly record of 82 degrees, according to Serge Zaka, a meteorologist in France.

[LincolnMan]

I am not discounting the importance of this news or the subject matter but it just cause me to remember that while in class in 1970 the teacher informed us that the world was sure to end by freezing. Which also reminds me of the short but marvelous poem:

Fire and Ice
BY ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

[David Lockmiller]

Can This Tribe of ‘Salmon People’ Pull Off One More Win?

On the gray, rocky beach where the coal terminal would have been, I met with Raynell Squil-le-he-le Morris, a Lummi elder who worked on Native affairs in the Clinton administration. I asked her: What were the lessons of Cherry Point?

“It’s been put on us to bring an Indigenous framework to this Western way,” she said. “With local governments, county governments, state governments, federal governments and agencies, we have to ensure that the framework of Indigenous traditional cultures are valued — at the same level as science.”

The Lummi-led victory marked a high point of recognition, but extinguished only one project in the Salish Sea. Another such fight would require the same respect from the Canadian government. Ottawa is reviewing a $3 billion proposal for the construction of a new causeway and an artificial island to increase the Port of Vancouver’s capacity by 2.4 million shipping containers a year. . . . In the Roberts Bank [Terminal 2] review, the Lummi forced their way to the table. . . . Among the speakers was Ms. Morris. “We need to stop the stressors. Stop the bleeding,” she told regulators.

For those persons able to access this New York Times opinion-article, you will be rewarded with a photograph captioned “Shore birds and waterfowl on the tidal flats near the proposed location of the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project.” Where else in the world would you be able to see such a scene of nature?

This New York Times opinion-article is wonderfully written by E. Tammy Kim. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a co-author and co-editor of Punk Ethnography, a book about the politics of contemporary world music. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker and many other outlets.

Damon Winter is a staff photographer currently on assignment for Opinion. He received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

[David Lockmiller]

Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians

[David Lockmiller]

At COP26, 100,000 march for climate justice
Washington Post 11/7/2021

On Thursday, the International Energy Agency released an analysis suggesting that the commitments made during the first week of the COP26 summit put the planet on a path to 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit), a dramatic shift from a U.N. projection published just two weeks earlier.

Organizers say 100,000 people marched through Glasgow, despite dreary, wet weather that Scots call “dreich.”

Environmental organizations, national trade unions, Indigenous leaders from the Amazon, Black Lives Matter protesters and Scottish independence groups were among those participating.

Echoing Fridays for Future activist Greta Thunberg’s criticism that U.N. negotiations were nothing more than 'blah blah blah," speakers at the Glasgow Green on Saturday rally voiced skepticism — if not outright disgust — toward the proceedings at COP26.