Rebecca Solnit writes in the Guardian about why fighting defeatism is also climate work.
How to Throw a Summer Party Without Plastic Waste
CBC News has some tips from one parent about how to celebrate outside without throwing away plastic.
We Can't Afford To Be Climate Doomers
Stanford engineering professor and renewable energy expert Mark Z Jacobson tweeted the other day, “Given that scientists who study 100% renewable energy systems are unanimous that it can be done why do we hear daily on twitter and everywhere else by those who don’t study such systems that it can’t be done?” A significant percentage of the general public speaks of climate change with a strange combination of confidence and defeatism: confidence in positions often based on inaccurate or outdated or maybe no information; defeatism about what we can do to make a livable future. Maybe they just get their facts from other doom evangelists, who flourish on the internet, no matter how much reputable scientists demonstrate their errors.
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