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Here’s a journal from my most recent travels.

More than a trillion plastic bags are used annually. They're made of a notoriously resilient kind of plastic called polyethylene – but scientists have found that wax worms are able to break them down.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJHw2uinXU)

Fee and Dividend

Recommended reading, by Dr. James Hansen 8 Feb 2017

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1/files/1b9682d4-c9b8-40af-af32-eb2833026c6a/Fee_Dividend.2017.02.08.01.pdf

Starbucks, General Mills and Nike were among more than 360 companies and investors urging Trump and elected officials in an open letter to "continue U.S. participation" in the Paris climate accord.

Norway allows oil companies to exploit massive fossil resources in the Barents Sea. There is simply no room for new fossil fuel exploitation within humanity’s remaining carbon budget.

from Dr. James E. Hansen, October 18th, 2016

#fossil fuels

Carbon dioxide just hit its annual minimum and failed to dip below 400 ppm. We're unlikely to see a month below that level in our lifetimes.

#carbon atmosphere

I signed to tell @POTUS #NoNewLeases of oil&gas on public lands & waters. Join me and sign: http://www.signforgood.com/keepitintheground. #KeepitintheGround

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYspQKmMElI)

Alternative to The Dark Act

“There is an alternative to the DARK Act. Senator Merkley (D-OR) has introduced a bill that allows the industry different options to comply with a mandatory, on package, solution that will give consumers the information they want. Just Label It supports this bill and encourages constituents to reach out to their Senators and ask them to support this legislation.” ~http://www.justlabelit.org/dark-act/

Pope Francis on True Wisdom

“True wisdom, as the fruit of self-examination, dialogue and generous encounter between persons, is not acquired by a mere accumulation of data which eventually leads to overload and confusion, a sort of mental pollution. Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail, now tend to be replaced by a type of internet communication which enables us to choose or eliminate relationships at whim, thus giving rise to a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature. Today’s media do enable us to communicate and to share our knowledge and affections. Yet at times they also shield us from direct contact with the pain, the fears and the joys of others and the complexity of their personal experiences. For this reason, we should be concerned that, alongside the exciting possibilities offered by these media, a deep and melancholic dissatisfaction with interpersonal relations, or a harmful sense of isolation, can also arise.”~Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, 2015, [47], http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

#pope francis #true wisdom

Pope Francis on True Wisdom

“True wisdom, as the fruit of self-examination, dialogue and generous encounter between persons, is not acquired by a mere accumulation of data which eventually leads to overload and confusion, a sort of mental pollution. Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail, now tend to be replaced by a type of internet communication which enables us to choose or eliminate relationships at whim, thus giving rise to a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature. Today’s media do enable us to communicate and to share our knowledge and affections. Yet at times they also shield us from direct contact with the pain, the fears and the joys of others and the complexity of their personal experiences. For this reason, we should be concerned that, alongside the exciting possibilities offered by these media, a deep and melancholic dissatisfaction with interpersonal relations, or a harmful sense of isolation, can also arise.” ~Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, 2015, [47], http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

#pope francis

Scientists have had enough of Congress' climate denial. On Tuesday, a whopping 31 major scientific groups — representing tens of thousands of researchers — delivered a joint letter to Capitol Hill to present a unified front on the seriousness of human-caused global warming and the need to address

#climate change

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKasUm77D0U)

#climate change #jet stream

Fritjof Capra on Ecological Ethics

“[A] deep ecological ethics is urgently needed today, and especially in science, since most of what scientists do is not life-furthering and life-preserving but life destroying. With physicists designing weapons systems that threaten to wipe out life on the planet, with chemists contaminating the global environment, with biologists releasing new and unknown types of microorganisms without knowing the consequences, with psychologists and other scientists torturing animals in the name of scientific progress—with all these activities going on, it seems most urgent to introduce ‘ecoethical’ standards into science” ~Fritjof Capra, 1996, The Web of Life, Doubleday, NY, Ch. 1, p. 11.

#ecological ethics

James Hansen of Columbia University’s Earth Institute talks about preserving the planet for the next generation

#carbon tax

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