This New Year’s season feels to me a bit like climbing out of the rubble after disaster has struck. I don’t think I’ll get much pushback about whether 2020 qualifies as a disaster. The worst part is that the disaster’s not finished with us. Those certainly are not the jolliest New Year’s reflections ever shared, but here we are. The painful joke about hitting bottom and then starting to dig definitely applies to 2021, so far. Already starting to dig…
The Artdog Quote(s) of the Week I recently realized that I’ve talked about habitat loss several times this year on this blog, but always in the context of plants and animals in the environment, never about humans losing their homes, except in the context of natural disasters. But there’s an ongoing, not-too-dramatic-looking but heartbreaking and needless disaster unfolding in our country. Not the addiction epidemic, although it’s related. It’s a crisis of homelessness. I’ll focus mainly on the US for my thoughts about homelessness in my December Quotes of the Week, because that’s…
It’s important to remember This has been a rough year, all over the world. Recent posts in this space have focused on natural disasters in North America, but throughout the world, the lives of everyone who died this year because of natural disasters should matter. Here is an updated listing of wildfires all over the world in 2017, along with the scope of their devastation, lest we forget. I will argue that some natural disasters–such as increasingly violent storms driven by rising global temperatures, and wildfires in drought-parched…