#climate anxiety

[great-and-small]

am I buying dolphin safe tuna? am I buying bat safe tequila? am I buying orangutan safe candy? am I buying bird safe windows? am I buying coral safe sunscreen? am I

#conservation #climate anxiety

[reasonsforhope]

Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.

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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.

With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...

...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...

Lawmakers Weigh In

More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”

The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.

Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.

“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.

“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.

“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.

Program Details and Grant Deadlines

The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.

Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”

The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."

-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023

#climate change #climate crisis #climate anxiety #climate news #climate corps #biden #biden administration #democrats #voting matters #congress #environmental activism #environmental protection agency #environmental justice #climate activism #united states #us politics #good news #hope #hope posting #green jobs #hope punk #seriously this is SUCH a huge deal #climate hope #green energy #disaster preparedness #natural disasters #ecosystem restoration

[hope-for-the-planet]

#clean energy #green energy #sustainability #climate change #environment #good news #hope #climate anxiety #fossil fuels

[magnetothemagnificent]

Some Jewish environmentalist questions I've been thinking of lately....

How can we commemorate the Festival of Spring (Pesach) in its proper time if climate change is changing the onset of the seasons?

How can we ask Hashem for rain when the rainy season is now the devastating floods and hurricanes season?

How can we determine the end of Shabbat without a clock, if light pollution means we can't see even three stars?

How can we bless the new moon through smog?

How can we bless the budding of new fruit in its proper time, if fruit trees aren't budding in their time?

How can we thank Hashem for rain when the rain that falls is toxic?

[goyim can reblog but don't add]

#jews feel free to add on to this #jumblr #judaism #jewish environmentalist #environmentalism #climate anxiety #if jew know jew know #climate change

[queerbrownvegan]

We need more hope-keepers in the climate justice movement. More people who hold evidence-based hope in their hands that celebrate the continued momentum and progress that is being done. Because without them, who would we lean on in times of despair? -qbv

#queerbrownvegan #sustainability #climate change #climate justice #activism #social justice #mental health #environmentalism #intersectionality #climate anxiety #ecoanxiety #doomism #hope

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I'm sorry if this is bleak, but I'm very scared about climate change. Is there any sort of hope at this point or are we all just waiting to starve to death? :(

There is always hope. There is always possibility.

Life has clung on to this little spherical rock for 4.6 billion years and has survived unimaginable things. Life will survive this, too.

We have to work together. We have to realize we are all one biosphere, one planet, one people. And work together.

And that kind of change starts with each one of us, in extending more empathy and compassion to each other and to nature, and fighting for what's right.

tldr do the work you can do. it'll help.

#climate change #climate anxiety #sixth mass extinction

[thepeacefulgarden]

#constructive anger #activism fatigue #compassion fatigue #current events #climate crisis #climate anxiety #self compassion #your feelings are valid #generational trauma #mental health #feelings #emotions

[cryptonature]

One dangerous illusion of modernity

is the link between cost and value.

Could we afford the true cost of rain?

Can we calculate a price for the work of phytoplankton producing the oxygen we need?

Our survival will require us to understand value

independent of cost.

#nature #naturalist #eco anxiety #ecology #climate anxiety #climate science

[climatecalling]

Bearing witness to the climate crisis can feel surreal at times, yet I do not mention this to my client. I have a job to do, and it is not to escalate their rational anxieties and fears, it is to manage what is manageable; to teach coping strategies, to encourage connection to nature and social relationships, to channel their grief into sustainable action that feels meaningful. ... I constantly return to the message that there is so much beauty and life in the world that can be saved - and is absolutely worth fighting for. I encourage people to curate their social media feeds and to seek out good news stories about the climate action around the world. I get them to envision a world that is fair; where everyone has enough resources to meet their needs. I ask them what they can do now to contribute to this world, and ask them to move towards this. I talk to them about connection with like minded peers, and joining a local climate action group. I talk to them about nature based therapies- hiking, swimming, listening and watching wildlife, attending beach clean ups and tree planting days. I talk to them about choosing financial institutions to bank with that rule out funding fossil fuel projects. I encourage mindfulness, enjoying the present moment, working through their grief through art, and working through their stress, rage and anxiety with movement.

#climate crisis #climate activism #climate anxiety

[defleftist]

Anybody else completely unable to enjoy warm fall weather because it’s just a reminder of the progress of climate change? Because yeah, when I was little, our autumn weather was much cooler.

#climate change #climate crisis #climate emergency #global climate change #warm weather #fall #autumn #climate anxiety #global warming #weather #temperature #environmentalism #environmental activism #save the earth #protect the earth #leftblr #leftist #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights

[deadreamersociety]

crazy how we’re watching our beautiful planet being destroyed by evil maniacs and we’re j supposed to go to school and work normally as if this isn’t such a uniquely maddening form of radicalisation

#i feel like i’m going insane #nothing else matters #why does no one care #climate change #global warming #save our planet #climate crisis #climate emergency #climate activism #climate anxiety #the horrors #ramblings of a madman 🪵 #mother earth #aaaahhhh

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, I would literally bet money that we're going to successfully keep global warming below 2 degrees celsius.

Would I bet my whole savings on it? No, not yet. But the way the data is trending, in two or three years, I very well might.

#good numbers keep going up at a rate that is drastically higher than expected #and that rate is going to keep increasing #metaphorically ofc I don't gamble with that kind of money lol #but seriously #I WOULD bet money that we will keep the increase under two degrees celsius #based on all the news and articles I've seen and all the research I've done #SHOUTOUT TO EXPONENTIAL CURVES #COME SAVE OUR ASSES EXPONENTIAL CURVES #lay translation of that is #not news #climate change #climate anxiety #me #climate hope #global warming

[hope-for-the-planet]

Previous similar drops in emissions were due to periods of economic stagnation or recession--this is the first significant drop in emissions that has coincided with GDP growth.

The majority of this decline is due to changes in energy use and generation. Coal demand has dropped nearly to 1900s levels, while use of renewables grows significantly--for the first time renewables accounted for half of the energy generated in "advanced economies" included in this analysis.

#good news #hope #ecoanxiety #ecogrief #climate anxiety #climate grief #climate change #global warming #renewable energy #green energy #clean energy #coal #solar #wind energy

[grouchydairy]

When consumers are told they are equally to blame for the climate crisis (a narrative conveniently crafted by the fossil fuel industry) but face a dearth of options for actually leading a more climate-friendly life, it’s all too easy to convince people to feel guilty merely for living.

The New Republic

#climate crisis #climate anxiety #eco-anxiety #consumerism #climate change

[queerbrownvegan]

None of us are alright and the idea that climate anxiety is a sign of weakness disregards our most basic sense of empathy.

qbv

#queerbrownvegan #sustainability #climate change #environmentalism #social justice #environment #climate crisis #environmental justice #activism #intersectional environmentalism #mental health #climate anxiety #eco anxiety

[anarchywoofwoof]

in the past 30 days, ~5,000 heat and rainfall records have been broken or tied in the united states and more than 10,000~ records set globally

texas cities and towns alone have set 369 daily high temperature records since june 1st.

since 2000, the u.s. has set about twice as many records for heat as those for cold.

this is not just "one heatwave". this is the beginning of the culmination of our decades of unchecked hubris and ongoing rape of the natural world.

we have fucked around.

we are finding out.

#climate change #collapse #environment #fuck capitalism #anarchy #climate anxiety