It is worse — It’s worse than you think or maybe worse than we can think. It seems to be a fundamental flaw in the human race, this ability to selectively heed warnings dependent on the expediency of the moment, how we are willfully blind to the approaching calamity that is about to engulf…

I propose new avatars for Politicians and their CEO owners. — The already inadequate infrastructure+reconciliation bill is being met with a treatment of predatory delay, instigated by that murder of Crows, fossil fuel CEOs, aided and abetted by that mischief of Rats, opportunistic politicians, the prominent specimens of which are Senators Sinema and Manchin. This would be disgraceful even under the…

Neither will COP 27, 28, or 50. — Despite proclamations to the contrary by the U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, to those of us who have been paying increasing attention to the state and the politics of climate change, COP-26 is already set to be an abject failure. There have been 25 COP (Conference Of the Parties) meetings…

The good is oft interred with the bones — Climate leadership in the real world means direct collisions not only with your entrenched beliefs and denials, but also with entrenched financial interests and greed of unimaginable scope and cruelty. Senator Manchin has 10 Grandkids. Mr. and Mrs. Manchin are, apparently, proud to be grandparents of Joseph V, Sophie, Kelsey…

We are on the cusp of an energy crash — News flash: There just isn’t enough oil left to power the global industrial society beyond 2030. There just isn’t, and what there is, needs to stay underground if the planet is to survive. The world consumes 582 billion terajoules (TJ) of energy annually. And it is not enough. We in…