Eaarth Feels

A quick reminder from Elizabeth Gilbert:  We all have the ability to illuminate our corner of our world.

In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette,
In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable.

This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

The not-very-ambitious agreement to come out of COP26 has left many climate-concerned people around the world discouraged and angry. Rose and Christine discuss what happened in Glasgow this month, as well as the recent extreme flooding in British Columbia that has cut off the West Coast of Canada from the rest of the country.

Does hearing about another species going extinct make you feel angry? Author John R. Platt thinks that is a good thing.

This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

In a rebroadcast of the five women panel presented at the virtual 2021 Parliament of World's Religions, Pat Fero, Clare Dubois, Shannon Thompson, Linda Bender and Rose Tenaglia Dunn share how their journey of communication with Gaia has led them to step beyond their comfort zone to take action on her behalf.

Good news on the climate front? Thankfully, there are some hopeful signs.

In order to address the climate emergency, the amount we need to consume needs to drop dramatically. Then why are we consuming MORE?

Everything that has ever been created by humanity began as a thought, a dreaming, an imagining. Envisioning the world our hearts know is possible is the beginning. Ms Heglar explains.

This essay originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

As pivotal UN climate talks begin at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on October 31st, this podcast episode spotlights youth whose voices are not often heard at climate negotiations, but who will be living with the impacts of a less stable climate all their lives. Six young people from around the world, including from those countries being most impacted by climate destabilization already, send a message to the leaders meeting in Glasgow.

In response to the "grave threat" of climate change, heads of the world's major religions united at the Vatican to issue an unprecedented joint appeal to government leaders at next month's United Nations climate summit, calling for "urgent, radical and responsible action" to drastically curb greenhouse gas emissions and for the world's wealthiest countries to lead in healing the planet.