When it comes to Climate Change, it’s actions not words that count. That’s why the title of this article struck us to share it with our readers because all of us know how true it is that nothing happens when nothing happens. In fact, climate change has been happening as a result of doing things the way they have always been done. It appears that business as usual will have dire consequences, but what can be done now to change the outcomes? In hopes of starting some thinking, we share this opinion piece by Heather Hauser, for Austin American Statesman.

“Over the summer a lot of people talked to me about climate change instead of the other way around. They talked about the Great Salt Lake dry-up , about the Supreme Court justices deflating the EPA’s regulatory powers, about whether climate migration will ruin their real estate investments, about […]

All this means one thing to me: the climate crisis is now a public feeling. Finally, more Americans who have been sheltered from the earliest and worst climate impacts have formed what Lauren Berlant calls an “intimate public” around climate crisis. People are feeling something, they’re curious, they “sense that matters of survival are at stake” and that listening and telling are routes “out of the impasse and the struggle of the present.” They are talking.”

by Heather Hauser Austin American Statesman

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