#ClimateDiary continuing to think a lot about denial, and how strong it is, in myself. Like, irrationally some part in me still hopes that it will suddenly go away; that all of this - climate crisis, Gaza, redundancies - will turn out to have been a nightmare, not true. In those moments i have to relearn and reaccept it all again. Which I do. But i have more and more understanding of how strong the instinct for denial really is. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112471933954570931
I don't remember the last time the USPS website didn't have a weather-delay alert at the top. I wonder at which point they simply say "climate change will impact delivery for the foreseeable future".
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The best carbon capture and storage system are healthy #ecosystems. I don't know if the photo here of this Youhiogheny River section pictures is, in fact, a healthy ecosystem, but it is a lovely view and there is lots of carbon loveliness in those trees and in the forest floor. I took it for my friend who wanted a photo to look at while he pees. It's titled:
Pix to piss to
Oh this is awful to read. I kept on posting about #Phoenix here on #ClimateDiary last year and worrying about homeless people in particular, and to reassure that 645 really did die, and 290 of those were homeless- that is just awful!
The #Vinca is starting to bloom. These used to cover our septic tank, before Nestle made us connect to a sewer system instead. It's no longer moist enough for a huge mass of them, but some individual plants still hang on.
(And we still boycott Arrowhead water for stealing our local water supply to sell in plastic bottles at grocery stores in SoCal - it tasted much better running through our pipes).
#ClimateDiary The Papua New Guinea national disaster centre on Friday’s landslide in a remote village in the northern part of the country:
“The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction to buildings, food gardens and caused major impact on the economic lifeline of the country,”
The mentioning of “food gardens” shows their centrality to people’s livelihoods. These people contributed nothing yet are now destroyed by climate change.
#ClimateDiary If anyone here is near #Eastbourne in the next few weeks: do come and see the Emma Stibbon “melting ice rising tide” exhibition at the Towner Gallery, which rather brilliantly connects her polar art with new work on the changing Sussex coast line.
#ClimateDiary#Eastbourne After the exhibition we went to seafront itself; tried to take pictures of beautiful cliff gardens - see last year’s! On #WildFlowerHour! - but will need to come back in morning with better light. Still, beautiful as always but yes, crumbling… #TheCrumble
Thinking about impermanence, all the more at the moment because if i lose my job we might have to move. I have moved so much in my life and used to not mind, but I really love Eastbourne and really don’t want to move; I wonder whether that’s also because of an overall sense of uncertainty and insecurity. Or maybe i am just getting older and all change seems bad..
…a corollary to this is that just like every other creature, we exploit gradients and are subject to the same power laws.
We’ve just been more ingenious at harnessing combustion and doing everything at scale.
The more energy we find a way to harness, the bigger our economy grows. This makes it likely that renewables will be additive. Which has been the pattern of our energy history
During a typical day my attention turns over various aspects of humans and the climate crisis. At least once a day, some days it might be half a day, the thoughts come and go along with a generally persistent climate anxiety. Often times the thoughts are replays of variations of questions about why humans are failing to act to preserve their future. Today as I walked my dog Cosmo I considered the different approaches we could be taking...
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Die Zustimmung zum EU-Renaturierungsgesetz wird von der ÖVP blockiert, aus fadenscheinigen und durchsichtigen Gründen: als Anti-Klimaschutz - Partei hat sie kein Interesse, zukunftsweisende Politik zu betreiben. Österreich wird so zum Blockierer einer umfassenden Kllimapolitik der EU. Sind die #Grünen dagegen machtlos?
Licht auf die Mechanismen von Zustimmung/Ablehnung des Gesetzes auf nationaler Ebene hat nun #derfalter geworfen:
#ClimateDiary Kidney disease is high and rapidly worsening in coastal Bangladesh due to rising sea levels increasing water salinity as well as extreme heat. For many, like 65yo Khatun, dialysis is too expensive.
The whole of Khulna, once a thriving city, is affected by saline intrusion due to frequent floods, cyclones and tidal surge.
“The global climate crisis is essentially a water crisis,” says Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha at UCL.
#ClimateDiary And now #CycloneRemal has made landfall in Bangladesh and over one million people have been evacuated. I am thinking of Khatun and Ahmed, I hope they are ok, that they don’t lose their home or possessions.