Climate
Nailed to the Door of Our Planet PART 2
“The paradox of McWorld (corporate ideal) Benjamin Barber writes in Jihad vs. McWorld, “is that it destroys the financial base of the consumers it needs on the way to selling them products. It overproduces goods and underproduces employment, unable to see the connection between them. While democracy cultivates free markets, markets fail to cultivate democracy.”
By Gerard Fournier4 years ago in Earth
The Climate in Seattle is Changing
By Brian Abbey My name is Brian Abbey, and I was born and raised in Seattle. Well, Burien, actually, and I spent a lot of time in Leavenworth. But I’ve lived in and around Seattle my whole life, where it rains, on average, 155.3 days per year and where we have 152 days of sunshine per year. You can learn a lot through statistics and averages. The average annual high temperature is 59º and the low is 45º and we have 2,019 average hours of sunshine per year. You can learn other things too, like that it doesn’t get real hot for real long, and eventually it always, and I mean always rains. But there are some things that statistics can’t tell you in any meaningful way. Like the fact that this year it got real hot, hotter than I can ever remember. And it was dryer than I can remember it ever being. And as these extreme weather events keep playing out, people start conflating a heat wave with climate change. Now, I’m not an atmospheric scientist, but I do have a degree in environmental studies, and I’ve studied these things enough to know that, well, it’s time we have the talk. See, I think most people out there don’t quite understand what the climate is, why it’s changing, or really why it should even matter to them. And while I’ve never been good with analogies, I think that under the circumstances we need a better way to convey the urgency with which we have to ask about climate change. What it comes down to is this: we have to make changes, or the earth will make them for us. For all the Brian Abbey’s and Joe Smith’s of the world.
By Albert David4 years ago in Earth
Global Warming is Real and We Can't Keep Pretending!
Global warming and terms like climate change and the greenhouse effect are not simply words we toss around as part of lite conversation. These things are real and happening at even a faster rate than scientists first predicted.
By Justiss Goode4 years ago in Earth
Learning to Lead in Higher Education During Times of Uncertainty
Global higher education — like many other sectors — is at a pivotal moment, experiencing a time of rapid change and uncertainty. There is a need to shape the future quickly, to repurpose and reinvent. In addition, the advancement of digitalization and technologies has opened new ways of learning and accessing knowledge.
By Viona Aminda4 years ago in Earth
