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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
By Rebecca SolnitSummer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/04/summer-heat-climate-war-zone
#Climatecrisis #Environment #NewMexico #Europe #USnews #Extremeweather #Worldnews #TheGuardian #RebeccaSolnit
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Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/listening-to-cassandra-misogyny-classical-and-modern/
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" #HeatWaves kill quietly in this home and that, and in many cases it's not immediately obvious that a given #death was due to heat. While #climate brings us many kinds of catastrophe, #heat may be the most insidious." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/a-million-wa... #RebeccaSolnit
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A Million Warnings and One Huge Invitation: Climate 2026
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/a-million-warnings-and-one-huge-invitation-climate-2026/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
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What is the United States of America now?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/what-is-the-united-states-of-america-now?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Winners and Losers: A Hell of a Week in the US of A
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/winners-and-losers-a-hell-of-a-week-in-the-us-of-a/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
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Working with #undergraduates was the best part of my final three years at #NASA. Young people have rich ideas, it's up to us to engage them.
via #RebeccaSolnit on FB, excerpting from Andy Black:
"Here's a counter to the piece I shared about #students not being able to stay focused on long complex pieces of #reading (and while blaming the young is a very popular habit going back #generations and centuries, ..."
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It Makes You Sick: The Attacks on Health, Healthcare, and Care
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/it-makes-you-sick-the-attacks-on-health-healthcare-and-care/
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This backing from the UN strengthens the ICJ opinion as an authoritative reference point for courts, governments and climate groups to cite in climate litigation and advocacy around the world. So, reference and cite it wherever you can.
There's a great deep dive by Rebecca Solnit that goes into the many involved & the efforts over years, the student group & the work of the Indigenous Chamorro human rights lawyer Julian Aguon.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-may-well-be-the-most-consequential-case-in-the-history-of-humanity #ICJ #RebeccaSolnit #Vanuatu #ClimateJustice
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Attention #California: #RebeccaSolnit has some information to help you in the upcoming #primary #election for #governor.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-case-for-climate-champion-tom-steyer-in-the-california-governors-race/ -
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https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/
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“We often speak as though we are here to toil, endlessly planting and cultivating seeds and seedlings. But we have also feasted on harvests from what was sown and tended by those who came before.”
Rebecca Solnit // The Beginning Comes After the End
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"The United States is destroying itself.
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment.
The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.
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But trying to understand motives is something of a hobby when the focus needs to be on consequences. We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain and ultimately remove them. They will not last for ever, and we need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged and corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality. But not to return to the way things were."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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USAnian liberals are v funny.
#RebeccaSolnit rightly observes that the #USA is being dismantled from within, but somehow thinks that's a Bad Thing™. :D
Yes, #Solnit really wants readers to believe in the virtue myths of an empire founded on violent conquest and racism, built on genocide and the Big Lie of "liberty". 🤣😅
Solnit is course right that #Trump is a depraved, crooked monster. But her notion of another, virtuous America, is a Big Lie.
Why does #TheGuardian publish this crap?
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Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/flowers-bloom-on-soldiers-graves-lessons-in-power-and-consequence/
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An excellent summary of the destruction and long term consequences of #Trump and the #maga movement. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction #uspol #worldpol #reconstruction #rebeccasolnit
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The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit review – a manual for coping with change https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/09/the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-by-rebecca-solnit-review-a-manual-for-coping-with-change #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #SocietyBooks #PhilosophyBooks #HistoryBooks
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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/
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‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #PoliticsBooks #UsPolitics #Society #Feminism #TheFarRight #Environment #Race #ClimateCrisis #ProtestUs
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Mittagspause mit @RebeccaSolnit und Blick auf die Universitätsbibliothek der @unituebingen - Solnit's "Thr Beginning Comes After The End" ist das LA Times "Most Anticipated Book of 2026" #amreading #RebeccaSolnit #uspol #Feminism #NativeRights