This IS climate change

Lake Superior is experiencing the "Gales of November" before it's even mid-October. The Florida panhandle is getting hit with the worst storm in more than a century. Our own little back yard wet spot is once again full of water, and,

Nearly 1/3 of the U.S. is under some sort of weather advisory today

National Weather Service

Meanwhile, our email inbox brought us, amidst pleas to support a multitude of Democratic candidates, some potentially beneficial opportunities from the Center for Humans and Nature. We think they're worth sharing because it's a shame to waste a climate crisis.

• The Ethics of Adaptation to Global Warming 

"As global warming forces a fundamental re-imagining of how we live on Earth, we have the chance to choose adaptive strategies that create justice and honor life, and refuse those that protect and perpetuate injustice and destruction. To that end, I offer five essentially moral questions that I believe we should ask of every plan for adaptation to climate change..."

(1,164 words)
by Kathleen Dean Moore
Environmental Philosopher and Writer

• We Are Not Not Evolved to Respond to Climate Change

"When we ask how evolution influences our moral instincts, we must be cognizant of another important question: does our perception that evolution affects our moral instincts affect our moral instincts? Evoking evolutionary explanations for inaction on climate change might actually exacerbate inertia on the issue."

(926 words)
by Jennifer Jacquet
Assistant Professor, New York University

• Global Warming of 1.5º Celsius

Former CHN Artist of the Month Alisa Singer was commissioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to create the cover art for their latest report on global warming. Read the full IPCC report in the link above.

with Alisa Singer
Artist, Environmental Graphiti

We've seen several efforts to complete info graphics to get folks to pay attention. We have major reservations about how well they'll work. We don't believe most people are ready, willing or able to think globally. We also recognize the distinction between a particular storm or season and the longer term "climate." That seems to be a major semantic and mathematical and definitional conundrum we need to unravel, or cut like a Gordian knot. Perhaps we need to turn it around and upside down and presume that all weather these days is due to climate change unless it can be clearly demonstrated that it isn't.

A Language of Change

by David Sergeant

‘as late capitalism writhed in its internal decision concerning whetherto destroy Earth’s biosphere or change its rules’– Kim Stanley Robinson

We’re sat by the ocean and this
could be a love poem; but that lullaby murderer
refuses each name I give it
and the icebergs seep into our sandwiches,
translated by carbon magic. And even this might be
to say too much. But the muse of poetry
has told me to be more clear – and don’t,
s/he said, for the love of God, please, screw things up.
Ambiguous, I didn’t reply; as we’re sat
by the ocean and I could make it
anything you wanted, for this moment
of speaking – but we have made it
something forever. Together
the weather
is a language we can barely understand;
but confessional experts detect
in the senseless diktat of hurricane
a hymning of our sins, our stupid counterpoint.
Lovehas served its purpose, now must be
transformed by an impersonal sequester
of meinto the loves I will not see,
or touch, or in any way remember.
Perhaps it was always like this – take my hand,
horizon – ceding this land.

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