I found this tweet at Olympic Climate Action's blog Hot Off the Wire 1/3/2020, and received permission from Natural Resources Defense Council Publications Director Mary Annaïse Heglar to repost. l previously wrote about Extinction Rebellion Co-founder Roger Hallam's "Emotional and Intellectual Honesty," and saw these strengths in Annaïse Heglar's Twitter page, her climate manifesto "The Fight for Climate Justice Requires a New Narrative," and sensitivity to national and global communities mostly-silenced in corporate media.My wish for 2020 is for people to stop asking climate activists what gives us hope and start asking “how can I help?”— Mary Annaïse Heglar (@MaryHeglar) December 26, 2019
As a reminder, I wrote a climate manifesto in 2014, and posted former Director of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Hans Joachim Schellnhuber's idea of creating "a climate passport [or Nansen passport for climate refugees] 'to enter at least about 50 countries']." as he claimed "Rising Seas Could Affect 1.4 Billion People by 2060." Annaïse Heglar wrote in her October 22, 2019 Guernica article "After the Storm -- How Hurricane Katrina and the murder of Emmett Till shaped one woman’s commitment to climate justice," "we never thought we’d see New Orleanians referred to as refugees in their own country. It was as heartbreaking as it was unbelievable."
Annaïse Heglar's comment about "refugees" reminds me of Global Oneness Project's short video "In Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." noting the reality of all humans being "interdependent [, . . . . ] interrelated" and how "we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools." King's quote has taken on greater importance with the climate crisis.
Annaïse Heglar's comment also fits John D. Banusiewicz's writing for DoD News at The U. S. Department of Defense, citing former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's position on global warming: "food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, and destruction by natural disasters in regions across the globe." In one of my most-visited posts, "Cornel West's Great Essay 'Brother Martin Was a Blues Man.'" West noted "But when [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] was speaking the truth, he was radically unsettling folk. [ . . . .] The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, exemplary liberal [ . . . ] pushed Martin aside. [ . . . .]" Annaïse Heglar's willingness to "speak the rude truth" as King, Jr did, and as Emerson wrote, is in good company in this regard.
In related matters, Elizabeth Kolbert, author of 2015 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, has a great essay in the January 13, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, "What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring?"; the January 3, 2020 issue of The Guardian reported "Jakarta floods: cloud seeding planes try to break up heavy rain"; and Amy Goodman of Democracy NOW! reported "Australia is bracing for what is expected to be the worst weekend yet in an already devastating climate-fueled wildfire season that has ravaged the southeastern part of the country, killed at least 18 people and nearly half a billion animals, and destroyed 14.5 million acres of land. As thousands of evacuees fled to the beaches, conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing growing outrage for his inaction on climate and close ties with the coal industry." Regarding the Jakarta, Indonesia "cloud seeding." I wrote about geoengineering on this blog quoting Corey Gabriel, Executive Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Masters of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy: "In the event that geoengineering did cause disparate regional impacts, a regulatory scheme would need to develop that would contain enforceable compensation mechanisms to compensate those who suffer any damages."
In related matters, Elizabeth Kolbert, author of 2015 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, has a great essay in the January 13, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, "What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring?"; the January 3, 2020 issue of The Guardian reported "Jakarta floods: cloud seeding planes try to break up heavy rain"; and Amy Goodman of Democracy NOW! reported "Australia is bracing for what is expected to be the worst weekend yet in an already devastating climate-fueled wildfire season that has ravaged the southeastern part of the country, killed at least 18 people and nearly half a billion animals, and destroyed 14.5 million acres of land. As thousands of evacuees fled to the beaches, conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing growing outrage for his inaction on climate and close ties with the coal industry." Regarding the Jakarta, Indonesia "cloud seeding." I wrote about geoengineering on this blog quoting Corey Gabriel, Executive Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Masters of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy: "In the event that geoengineering did cause disparate regional impacts, a regulatory scheme would need to develop that would contain enforceable compensation mechanisms to compensate those who suffer any damages."
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