Real News

We’ve been so immersed in Fake News - and my schadenfreude has been operating overtime as I read about how the National Enquirer, beloved of the supermarket checkouts a couple of decades ago, helped to provide some to get “You Know Who” elected in 2016. Who knew who the originators of such Fake News really were? It’s surprising that the instigator didn’t take the credit.

Last evening a few of us online in a climate centered group asked how we best engage others to attention to the climate crisis. I an watching a local seniors advocacy group become angry at banks and oil companies, and we are all watching the young follow the tradition of sixties protests because, like us, they can’t help reacting to the never-ending bad news around us on TV and social media. The issues are long-standing and complicated. The response of the young can’t be nuanced; they are not looking through the eyes of times they did not live through. I admire can their courage even when protesting involves misunderstanding and recklessness. But the perspective of my more than eight decades, I’m not sure that it is the only approach - or that of the seniors who imitate them. For now, I choose to look at positive things that are happening and put my support there.

One such is from Solved, referenced in the previous post. Here’s a quote:

“City-led climate action, because it is real, effective, and timely, can offer hope that we can address climate change. Why? Because taking proven solutions underway somewhere. and using them everywhere is the best - and increasingly the only- way to act with the urgency that science shows we must.” p.16. Solved, Paperback edition

See the book under resources here and get a copy. You will be encouraged and find ways to act.