Hurricane Milton: Live Stream, Updates, and Discussion
Hurricane Milton threatens to be one of the most powerful storms to hit Florida in a century, and right on the heels of Helene
Category: Environment
The East Palestine Crash: Reality Bubbles Through
East Palestine is a glimpse of the dirty underbelly of our industrial society and the never-ending need to keep an eye on what exactly we’re putting out there.
The Future’s So Bright?
Nuclear fusion, if successful and widespread, would solve the ‘climate crisis’ Gen Z is so worried about
Wildlife Management and Bambi
I enjoy hunting for a number of reasons. However, recently, two of those bedrock principles were challenged.
Colorado River Water Crisis Going From Bad to Worse
The water situation in the Western US is going from critical to desperate, and the Colorado River is at the center of it.
On Letting The Poors Eat Cake and Drive Electric Vehicles
Damn, Democrats. Shrugging your shoulders about the price of gas and suggesting we all buy electric vehicles isn’t helping
The Global Climate Crisis Was A Deliberate Decision
The Climate Crisis was, and remains, a choice. Or we can recognize that we made, and continue to make, choices that got us here.
Derailed: Performative Nihilism and Critical Infrastructure Attacks On The Railroads
There have been too many accidental rail disasters for there to be any justification in cosplaying anarchist creating deliberate ones
Climate Solutions For The Normal Situations of Normal People
If a solution is presented to problems of climate that ignore the existence of normal people in normal situations, it is no solution.
Catastrophic Rain Kills 21, Others Missing In Tennessee Floods
Historic rain have killed at least 21 people in catastrophic and record-setting Tennessee Floods.
Thursday Throughput: Brooding Cicadas Edition
Every 13 or 17 years, Cicadas mature to adulthood, fly around, make a hell of a lot of noise, and have an astonishing amount of bug sex.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Vs Canada over Enbridge’s Line 5
A 4.5 mile stretch of Line 5 under the Great Lakes is at the center of a legal fight with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Green New Deal (Slight Return): Read It For Yourself
Its baaaaaaaack. The Green New Deal has been reintroduced…take up the gauntlet yourself and read the Green New Deal here
Birding: Among the Birds of the Mitten
That auditory component, hearing along with seeing, is a big part of why birding is a thing while, say, insecting isn’t.
Saturday Spins: Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia
Earle’s goal on this album was to cut through a lot of that and attempt to understand, not condescend to, the dualities that exists in one state in particular, West Virginia.
Green New Deal vs Nuclear New Deal
Over at The Bellows, Emmet Penney and Adrián Calderón propose a Nuclear New Deal for solving both power grid issues and environmental concerns like climate change.
When Politics Ignores Science
“What’s it like?” Tim Ingalsbee repeated back to me, wearily, when I asked him what it was like to watch California this past week. In 1980, Ingalsbee started working as a wildland firefighter. In...
To the Place I Belong
By this point, I am afraid that the absurdity of all this had become too much to bear.
The Time Mike Pence Killed An Endangered Bald Eagle
The following story is meant to be humorous. As far as we know he has never, in fact, dressed as a woman. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
A Climate Hawk Laments: I Was Wrong About the Environmental Left
By proving people like myself – who have defended their motives as noble – wrong, the Left does irreparable damage to the cause of fighting climate change
