The Politics of Climate Change Parenting

(This article was first published in the January 2019 edition of Community Alliance, http://www.alliance.com.)

Joaquin Arambula and Miguel Arias are not the leaders we’re looking for

By Kevin Hall

Parents worldwide are faced with far greater fears and challenges today than at any time in history. They have the enormous responsibility for children’s lives, people they have chosen to bring into a world with a rapidly destabilizing climate. It’s a shared responsibility, of course, because at this point anyone under the age of 50 cannot count on having a stable climate in their old age.

Nearly 20 million people were climate refugees in 2018, according to U.N. estimates. Internally dislocated people, from hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Continue reading The Politics of Climate Change Parenting

Letter from Sacramento

May 27, 2018

STEP AWAY FROM THE INCINERATOR

Disasters—whether natural or human-caused—tend to spur action.

They also draw out the opportunists.

We saw this during the ten-year drought when mountains of stressed trees were overtaken by opportunistic bark beetles. Today, the U.S. Forest Service estimates there are up to 129 million dead trees in California’s forests.

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