by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
We have met the enemy and it’s not us, says Occidental Petroleum’s CEO. It’s YOU. But here’s why blaming oil and gas consumers for climate breakdown is bogus. By Kathleen Dean Moore, November 24, 2022 At the COP27 meetings in Egypt, Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
In an important article on environmental outrage and human rights1 my colleague, Tom Kerns wrote that a Latina student in his course on environmental toxins had been enduring serious health problems since she was born. One day in class, she put two and two together –...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Okay, folks, the people at the IPCC tell us that the world has twelve years to cut carbon emissions in half. Sounds like you and I need a plan. So, here’s a Climate Defender’s Calendar. Of course, we have to do all these things, all the time, forever – but this might...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The morning after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accords, this old climate warrior climbed out of bed feeling better about the chances of the sizzling, souring world than I have for months. Not just feeling better, feeling positively energized....
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
When a fearsome storm is bearing down on a great ship – the first winds shuddering in the sails, the first waves burying the bowsprit, sullen clouds obscuring the horizon – the captain shouts the order. “All hands on deck.” Every sailor knows...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Concerned ecologists recently made the case for the ecological urgency of action to save the world’s terrestrial megafauna (Ripple et al. 2016). These large mammals, desperately endangered by human depredation and habitat destruction, are critical to the functioning...