In the past 25 years my home city of Halifax has had snow for Christmas about once every 3 years. In the 25 years from 1960-1984, it was about 2 in 3. As much as I am not fond of cold and snow, it's deeply concerning that climate change has so radically changed our weather already. In the next 25 years we might barely see snow at all around Christmas.
#Halifax #ClimateChange #snow #WhiteChristmas
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/weather-white-christmas-maritimes-2022-1.6691526
The Year of Free Transit
Earlier this month, in Our Times, James Hutt presented a cogent argument for universal transit as a fundamental part of a strategy for combating climate change and inequality.
https://apollolemmon.com/2020/01/27/the-year-of-free-transit/
Let’s Imagine Better Things
In Cory Doctorow's latest podcast episode he reads from his article "Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things". It lays out that speculative fiction is more valuable as a way to present possibilities we can choose among rather than as prognostications. It presents a brilliant possible future for C
https://apollolemmon.com/2020/01/08/lets-imagine-better-things/