Character notes for "People of Every Ethnic Persuasion" Part 2 Big Truck's Family
Jan. 16th, 2026 11:13 pm( Read more... )



If you’ve every wondered if humans are a hopelessly destructive force that the planet would be better off without this book is a resounding ‘NO’.
This book looks at our unique human traits and abilities, reexamines our place in the world, and turns everything we "know" about how to save the world on it’s head. It's about using our strengths as a species to create lives for ourselves that contribute to healing our ecosystems. It’s about meeting our needs in ways that support biodiversity, reduce toxic waste, sequester carbon, and create stable economic systems. It's about learning to thrive in a world of change and confusion.
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There’s an 18% chance that global warming exceeds four degrees by 2100 and that’s not a small risk when the stakes are civilization-ending.Before I address the science, I'm making a meta comment about what I've seen on PBS YouTube channels and PBS and NPR websites since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was defunded; public media has become more opposed, even antagnostic, to Donald "Hoover Harding Cleveland" Trump's policies since. If the authors of Project 2025 thought public media was biting the hand that fed them, they might be surprised at how much their hands are being bitten now that they're not feeding public media!
In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May talks with civilization collapse researcher Luke Kemp and strategic climate risk expert Laurie Laybourn about why high-end warming scenarios are often dismissed as “doomerism,” even though worst-case planning is standard in most fields. We break down how uncertainty in climate sensitivity and political derailment could push warming higher than expected and how climate shocks can trigger cascading failures across food systems, financial markets, and geopolitics. Understanding the climate endgame isn’t pessimism. It’s risk management.
The Arctic was ice free and warm enough to host permanent forest cover across much of its extent. Iceland had a humid and subtropical climate...Dense, humid rainforests covered much of France, Switzerland, and northern Germany, while southern and central Spain were arid and contained open environments.That's a very different world from today.
