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In her article “The State of the Earth 2022,” published on her blog Green Life Blue Water, American environment lawyer and author Pam Lazos provides an unsettling critique of where humanity stands when it comes to dealing with the inconvenient truth of our climate crisis and the threat to life as we know it on Planet Earth.
Not your typical Earth Day post
There are only two roads in life, growing and dying. Tolbert McCarroll, Notes from the Song of Life
Earth Day 2022. If you want to know how it all started, you can read last year’s post on the first Earth Day. If you want to know how we’re doing (così così — so so in Italian), you can read Jeff Goodell’s article in Rolling Stone this week entitled, The Climate Fight Isn’t Lost. Here are 10 Ways to Win. And if you want to know where to hide until it’s all over, read Paul Greenberg’s Is Anywhere Safe From Climate Change which is a solution for maybe less than one half of one percent of us, but I totally get the sentiment. The real truth is, Environmental Justice is critical as Adele Costa tells us in her article Hog Waste Plastic Petals, and Cancer in the Air: The Intersection Between Environmental Justice and Women’s Health, and if we don’t take care of the most vulnerable among us, it will be lights out for all of us.
Read the complete article by Pam Lazos published on her blog Green Life Blue Water, April 22, 2022.
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You continue to remind us of what Ukraine has pushed out of the news – despite how much it is adding to the problem
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Derrick, in my view, Russia’s current aggression against its neighbor is more evidence of why our species is being driven towards societal collapse worldwide.
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Yes
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Rosaliene, I have seen the film about how Al Gore tried to change peoples awareness concerning the global warming quite some years ago and had than the hope that the human being would manage to change things for the better, but unfortunately problems have just accumulated. Many thanks:)
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Martina 🙂 Yes, we missed the ball big time!
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Pam cares, and is a force for positive change. She makes a difference!
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Aw, thanks, Neil.💕🌹
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I fear that there are just too many people who don’t care about climate change for a great deal to be done about it. As always, it’s all to do with greed and self interest.
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John, I believe that when more of us care about our ongoing climate chaos, the greater our chances of making a difference in reversing our current destructive path.
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People are walled in by their own experience instead of broadening their consciousness. It feels overwhelming to consider the totality of the crisis and I think we must instead turn out attention to what each of us can do as individuals. Because that is the only way through, by individuals making a difference. Voting, caring, repairing
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Kate, this crisis is, indeed, overwhelming and demands a response from all of humanity. I’m working on broadening my consciousness to bring about a “shift in being” as proposed by Jem Bendell & Rupert Read in their book Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos. It’s now two years since I’ve been on a plant-based diet and doing the best I can to reduce my carbon footprint. Eliminating the use of plastic products remains a challenge.
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Plastic is in everything and is now infiltrating our air and skin. We are killing ourselves as a species with our own blind groping for convenience
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Very unsettling development.
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The neglect of those in poor countries is particularly troubling. The human capacity to compartmentalize may have assisted us to reach 2022, but it seems a strategy that has outlasted some portions of it’s useful life. We need to look the crisis in the eyes and not create a zone of invisibility cloaking those whose benefit is the same as you our own. Thank you for this, Rosaline.
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Dr. Stein, looking the crisis in the eyes is overwhelming, as Kate notes in her comment. The poor and developing countries cannot afford the cost of the climate chaos already at their doorsteps. The same is true for minority and poor communities within our own borders, as in the case of Louisiana featured in Pam Lazos’ article.
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That was an excellent article from Pam. I ended up saving it, Rosaliene, so that I could follow all the links later when I have time. Great share.
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Pam’s articles on the environment are always very comprehensive and informative. I had to share this one.
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The most pressing and potentially lethal problem facing the world at the moment, and yet far too many humans turn their back, put on their blinders, unwilling to make a few sacrifices in their own lives. Thank you so much for sharing these links! I will check out Pam Lazos’ blog and the rest!
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Jill, thanks for dropping by and adding your voice. As the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation, our unwillingness to tackle this crisis with the force demanded is, in my view, global genocide.
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I fully agree with you, Rosaliene … it is global genocide, for there is not a single doubt that the human race is racing toward extinction. I am sickened when I hear someone say, “Why should I have to give up my SUV or turn my heat down … my little bit isn’t going to make a difference.” Ignorance … ’twill be the death of the human species.
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Thank you for sharing this. I especially appreciated the Rolling Stone article – The Climate Fight is Not Lost and ten things to do to win. No thanks on eating crickets though, I’ll just stay vegan and get my protein from beans and nuts.
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My pleasure, JoAnna. No crickets for me either. But, then again, who knows what we may be forced to eat to survive.
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Thank you for sharing!!.. there are many who do attempt to deal with the climate but rarely get noticed because of mankind’s thinking “out of sight, out of mind” and with everything else going on, don’t make the news… and there are those who refuse change because it make affect their lifestyle in some manner…. 🙂
I believe at the moment change is ongoing and it will take time so witness the improvements as the world deals with a number of issues… 🙂
Until we meet again..
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Dutch, thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. As you say, there’s a lot going on that is not covered by the media.
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What a wonderful, conscientious and insightful readership you have, Rose! Thanks to everyone for your great comments. Maybe the end is not predetermined with so much enthusiasm for creating a better world. All we can do is keep spreading the word and moving forward. Re: your comment on a plant-based diet, Rose, in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, they said if there’s one thing the regular person can do to help slow climate change it would be to quit eating beef. A tall order for some, but it would slow the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest — kind of like the lungs of the planet — to raise cattle, among other things. Thanks, Rose. xox
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Pam, it was my pleasure to share your post with my readers 🙂 Giving up beef is, indeed, a tall order for some people. Whether we believe it or not, great change is a-coming.
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It’s harder for my husband than me! 😂😂😂
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