News — climate change

Ruling keeps lawsuit proceeding against government over failure to prevent climate change and the damage it will cause to young people. The oil & coal companies lost their attempt to dismiss the suit. Details.

link Here is one interview. The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water. It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists. The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs, rising sea levels, hunger, loss of species of food crops, racial blaming, and hunger after terminator genes wipe out many food varieties. Oil is gone. It is a bit violent. link Another interview. Drowned Cities and Ship Breaker are about societies where the oil based energy system is gone, and people struggle in gangs over the spoils or else move on to wind-powered ships. Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about middle schoolers battlling GMO mad cows from a slaughter house. It also touches on bullying, discrimination against immigrants, corporate power over local government, and friendship. The Doubt Factory is about radicals protesting against toxic products . It focuses on a high school girl's relationship to her father, who is doing the fake pr for tobacco, pesticide, drug, and oil companies. She is attracted to rebellious radicals who want to expose the corporate pr.  

Thirst, walruses beaching, forests disappearing, Salmon overhating,.... Good news: the Pope, Islamic leaders, and the Navy call for action. link

Compost helps build soil, store carbon, absorb water, increase food, and increase resilience. Food production (mostly hemical fertilizers and feedlots) causes 20% of greenhouse gases. Ocean acidification could harm the phytoplankton, which creates much of the world's oxygen. See the last 5 minutes of Michael Pollan's talk. link

Razz Gormley volunteered to to go join Greenpeace and rappel off the bridge to block the Shell oil icebreaker in Portland. Fracking gas companies and oil companies drilling in the Arctic corrupt our courts, legislatures, elections, governor, and Congress. So he asks us to help, and says there is a great group of people who will support you. Here is the article:link . He is a leader in this group:frack free colorado.

A Boulder activist with Frack Free Colorado hung from the bridge with other Greenpeace activists, delaying the Shell icebreaker ship from getting up Alaska. The activists who were hanging 100 feet below the bridge and 100 feet above the water and roped together. After 3 of them were removed by police, lots of kayaks tried to block the ship. When the police grabbed the kayaks, some of the kayakers dove into the water and swam out to try to block the ship. This delay might keep the drilling from happening, the ice free season is short. LINK This reminds me of Ben White of the Animal Welfare Institute. He would swim next to navy ships with superloud sonar and next to oil prospecting ships with superloud sounds, to put his body in the way these tests that would harm whales, dolphins, and fish. He also would cut the nets that trapped dolphins and whales that were being trapped for aquariums. Link link .