My father, a farmer/rancher, every evening before bed, would go out to the corner of the porch and “check the weather.” My mother said she lived with him decades before she learned that he was also – “relieving his bladder.” Weather can be frightening, sometimes terrifying. But as an Eskimo Medicine man who heard voices talking to him in the wind, explained to a young archaeologist and journalist, what the wind was telling him was “Don’t .– be –. afraid.”
Climate change can be frightening. There are things, not hard things – but things that are different, that can be done about it. The trick is not to be afraid.
I asked ChatGPT to “list 5 of the best free unbiased websites for climate change science news.”
NASA Climate: https://climate.nasa.gov/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): https://www.noaa.gov/topic-tags/climate
Carbon Brief: https://www.carbonbrief.org/
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): https://www.ipcc.ch/
The Union of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org/climate
And then for the same focusing on what can be done about it:
Drawdown – https://www.drawdown.org/
The Solutions Project – https://thesolutionsproject.org/
Climate Interactive – https://www.climateinteractive.org/
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) – https://www.c2es.org/
The Climate Group – https://www.theclimategroup.org/
My personal three actions are:
Grow a garden and do your shopping at your local farmers markets.
Walk, ride a bike, use public transportation, and get an ebike.
Most important: Support changing infrastructures to maintain, improve, and expand these alternatives.
What are yours?
— Richard Roth, Chico
