by Deborah Phelan | Sep 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, Loss and Damage
In a poignantly intimate article, Loss and damage: What happens when climate change destroys lives and cultures? the authors reference a glacier in the Peruvian Andes whose disappearance is equated with the departure of the gods. This is just one example of...
by Deborah Phelan | Sep 8, 2022 | 2050, Climate Change, Real Life Story
I used to write a lot about climate change. Until I didn’t anymore. And that happened when I began to experience intense grief and fear over what our future looks like. I think that happened in conjunction with the 2015 Paris Agreement, which, while lauded now by...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 25, 2022 | Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather
When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will, of course, be the usual toasts with fine wines in the climate-controlled compounds of the wealthy few. But for most of humanity, it’ll just be another day of...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 13, 2021 | Climate Change, Drought, Extreme Weather
It’s a volatile combination in California; the wind, the fire season, and the historic drought. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for the past six weeks or so, the wind picks up every afternoon; there have already been two red flag alerts months before the fire...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 12, 2021 | 2050, Climate Change, Drought, Geoengineering
A Republican congressman yesterday suggested altering the moon’s orbit might be a solution to climate change, asking the US Forest Service if this was something they could accomplish. “I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve...
