Posts tagged climate change
And Somehow, She Persists

For now, I want to share this particularly special experience that is unfolding, right now. I’m on a ship in the Antarctic, specifically the Antarctic Sound on the northeast side of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, with a group of 120 women and non-binary people in STEMM. It’s facilitated by Homeward Bound. Read more here: it’s late, and this girl needs to get to bed.

But I wanted to start a log of our experiences each day, and I need to get caught up before time flashes by and I’m disembarking in Ushuaia in two weeks. Updates will be mostly through photos, as that is the energy level I’m working with currently.

Kinnes Cove

Home to a bustling Adelie penguin colony, with some Gentoos and a random Chinstrap or three thrown into the fray. We saw a sleepy, chunky Weddell seal hauled out on the shoreline, and a few lazy humpbacks cruised past our zodiacs on their way to redder pastures (because of krill, duh).

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How the Great Whales are Fighting Climate Change - Just By Existing

And now we have all the more reason to be intrigued by, and grateful for, these massive beings. When a story recently started circulating around many online media outlets about how whales are huge components of slowing down climate change, that got my attention. These articles were claiming that one whale is worth the equivalent of thousands of trees in terms of the amount of carbon it can remove from the atmosphere.

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A Simpler Way to Talk Green: Making it easy to understand and discuss climate change

I’m pretty sick of all the heavy negative weight around the words “climate change.” Yes, it’s scary. It’s horrifying that we are letting things get this bad. But at the same time, it’s a problem that we are facing, and there are many people taking positive action. Humanity has faced problems before. We’ve tackled issues and seen both successes and failures, and plenty of bumps along the way. In the end, doesn’t it come down to collaboration and problem-solving? I listened to a really succinct Green Dreamer podcast the other day that focused on summarizing climate change science into three basic facts. Dr. Jeffrey Bennet was the astronomer, teacher, and author that was interviewed, and I enjoyed his casual and easy-to-understand style as he pointed out some helpful bits of advice and offered practical ideas for solutions to this crisis. And the episode was only 30 minutes! I recommend listening to the whole thing here, but I’ve also summarized some of the key ideals that really stuck out to me.

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