Seeds of hope: How nature inspires scientists to confront climate change
The Washington Post’s climate team asked 11 scientists and conservationists where their hope comes from.
What aspects of nature give them the strength to confront our perilously hot present? What plants, animals and landscapes are they inspired to save?
Their reflections are odes to nature’s beauty and resilience, even as it comes under threat from deforestation, pollution and climate change.
They are also reminders of humanity’s own capacity for transformation. People have helped forests recover and endangered birds rebound in the past. We still have a chance to create a safer and more sustainable future.
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Hope Flanagan, Seneca, community outreach and culture teacher at Dream of Wild Health
As humans, we are a thread in the fabric of life here on Mother Earth. When we tug at that thread, we alter all of it. When we remember that Mother Earth is alive, that the soil is alive and that the plants are just as alive as we are — that is when we begin to heal. The plants, insects and animals were here long before us, so they are our elders. Our responsibility is to observe and learn from our elders how to live in harmony on this Earth.
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Some Positive Climate news
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Good news
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Yes, you can actually do something about climate change
The latest UN report looks at bigger solutions than choosing solar energy and a plant-based diet.
www.vox.com
Week of June 6:
Biden used emergency measures to produce more solar power.
Colorado is banning PFAS in oil- and gas-based products.
Single-use plastic is getting the boot from national parks.
Read more:www.mic.com/…
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Giving metal to microbes could reduce greenhouse gas
phys.org/…
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Don’t panic: Reasons for hope despite a grim UN climate report www.conservation.org/
HOW A SUSTAINABILITY SCIENTIST USES TIKTOK TO FIGHT CLIMATE ANXIETY WITH SOLUTIONS
Alaina Wood discusses her content and how climate doom impacts mental health
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Climate change also affects mental health. Call it eco-anxiety.
Climate change doesn’t just threaten the planet. It also affects the mental health of those grappling with the consequences.
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Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?
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People, political factions and nations have pulled together, they have also cleaned up some of those human-caused environmental problems, including healing the ozone hole, clearing perpetually smoggy air and saving many species from the brink of extinction.
“We can be good at cleaning up our messes, it’s whether or not we choose to be and what we prioritize,” said Michigan State University environmental sustainability researcher Sheril Kirshenbaum.
apnews.com
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