Put it this way: if the consensus of the economic experts is grim, the consensus of the climate experts is utterly terrifying. At this point, the central forecast of leading climate models — not the worst-case scenario but the most likely outcome — is utter catastrophe, a rise in temperatures that will totally disrupt life as we know it, if we continue along our present path.
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That’s Aidan (he’ll be starting kindergarten in the fall). I just really liked Jill’s awesome action photo.
‘Cuz they’re the girls.
Six-year-old Kiley competed in her first swimming event yesterday, winning a ribbon in the 25-meter freestyle.
Five-year-old Sofie continues to win ribbons in non sequiturs.
Veronica, Sofie’s mom: “I’m a Saggitarius, so what’s Sofie?”
Sofie: “Hilarious?”
“[The Earth's] been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn’t been done away with.”
Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen quoted at The Washington Monthly (they have the video).
“For that, we need something else. A superstar. A style-shaper. A person who could get whiny city kids not only to eat their vegetables, but to grow them.”
Timothy Egan writing about the need for Michelle Obama to save the national parks, where attendance has been in gradual decline. Go read what he has to say.
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Henry David Thoreau, who was born 192 years ago today.
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