Category climate disruption
The search for a man on horseback
Noam Chomsky has just crossed a Rubicon. In a recent interview with Chris Hedges, Chomsky lays out his fears for the US and what is happening here: “I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” Chomsky added. “I am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was unemployed. There were far […]
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE FARKING WEATHER!!
As I type this, we here in Brooklyn are ‘enjoying’ (pardon the usage) temperatures a good 20 degrees F below normal for this time of year. There have been weeks upon weeks of snowstorms every week, with below-average temperatures. I broke out my famous V-Rex bicycle in anticipation of spring, only to find that exertion […]
So Long, it’s been good ta know yuh…
Over the past week, I was suddenly captured by a couple pieces of music that seemed to encapsulate my mood in following the news. The above-cited song has been in my mental landscape since I was a kid and my aunts and uncles (who were actually great aunts and uncles, all survivors of the Great Depression) […]
Human extinction discussion on Brooklyn Culture Jam Radio
On Brooklyn Culture Jam last night, I spoke with Pauline Schneider. Ms. Schneider has produced a documentary on near-term human extinction entitled Going Dark. and the discussion ranged from the predictions from scientist Guy McPherson and friends to overviews of progressive politics and protests. Currently, Pauline is one of the people supporting Guy’s lecture tour around […]
Brooklyn Culture Jam Radio welcomes Pauline Schneider
Tonight (Thursday) on the Brooklyn Culture Jam radio program: Pauline Schneider Is a self-described Landscape Designer & Edible Forest Gardener, Videographer, Documentarian, Educator (social studies & special education), Artist (sculpture, painting, photography,etc.), and songwriter. She is currently working on documentary on the topic of Near Term Human Extinction with Dr Guy McPherson. We’re going to talk […]
The Flood Wall Street 10 make history
A month or so ago, I wrote about the Flood Wall Street defendants. They were facing felony charges for sitting in the street to protest Wall Street’s complicity in global climate warming (the banksters fund the projects that cause deforestation and pollution from unattended oil spills). Not anymore. A judge cleared them of charges last week, […]
anybody else feel this way?
First the political, then the personal. Anybody else feel this way lately– like your brain is being eaten? That it ain’t the heat, it’s the stupidity? That there are too many dumb and-or crazy things going on to address? The inspiration for this essay came to me a few weeks ago, when it was announced that […]
Confirmation: toxic oil covers floor of Gulf of Mexico
Per a news article in Live Science from February 2nd (yesterday), there’s this news about the poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico as an ongoing legacy of the Deepwater Horizon disaster: Up to 10 million gallons (38 million liters) of crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has settled at the bottom of […]
Support the Flood 12–Update
from the people organizing the petition: Jan 31, 2015 — Due to a shortage of judges in Manhattan next week, the trial has been postponed. It’s now tentatively scheduled for March 2nd, which means we have a month longer to collect signatures on this petition! Additionally, one of the defendants had to drop out and take […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 