on-tribalism-culture-wars-and-sustainability 
Terra Infirma
JUNE 16, 2020
As an avowed centrist big-L Liberal, I find this descent into ‘culture wars’ both worrying and depressing. Another author proclaimed “We won’t get to Sustainability without mindfulness.” Amongst them was Earl Grey, whose monument stands high above my adopted home city of Newcastle. How does shouting “Scum!”
Grist
AUGUST 17, 2023
It was a warm January morning, and my forehead was sweating under my orange hardhat. I pulled the starter rope of my chainsaw, lifted the roaring silver blade, and sliced through a small Douglas fir. The tree barely made a sound as it fell. Within minutes, bits and pieces of seven trees lay strewn around me.
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Unsustainable
MARCH 10, 2020
If I, a privileged member of society, am having such a difficult time managing finances and trying to be sustainable, how can we expect people from underprivileged backgrounds to be on this spectrum? Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. Finally there were people who understood the magnitude of this situation.
Grist
JANUARY 10, 2024
But the caribou, which provide essential food and cultural resources for many Alaska Native communities, are facing multiple threats: A slew of climate-related impacts have hampered their grazing, wildfires have burned the forage they rely on, warmer winters may have increased disease , and thawing permafrost has disrupted their migrations.
Grist
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. It may come as no surprise that its findings are dire. But the report also offers reason for hope. decreased by 12 percent.
Business Green
DECEMBER 21, 2020
A year of tragedy and chaos has also seen a dramatic leap forward for the global green economy. There is an alternative history to 2020. It was the year the world's largest polluter pledged to fully decarbonise its economy within 40 years. It was the year when hydrogen fuelled and battery operated planes took to the skies. Nice, but dishonest.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The nail-biting US election has clarified one thing: the truly gargantuan scale of the climate challenge in an age of populism and division. All is uncertain. The world hits refresh, longing for clarity, but none comes. The routes forward are diametrically opposed, and yet right now the crossroad is a disorientating and dangerous swamp.
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