[MCN] RANT in a sentence : Roadless habitat is as important as ever, and arguably more important than ever in a human-crowded, hotter, drier world

[Lance Olsen]

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“Someday I must tell my son what I have done. My comfortable, safe life is in large part a product of the internal combustion engine. Fossil fuels power the trains that take us to the beach, the factories that make his plastic bucket and spade, the lights I switch off when I kiss him good night.

“I cannot deny my son or myself the ease of modern life, and I have no wish to isolate him from friends and family by insisting on radical changes. A carbon-free life seems a solitary one: no travel to see grandparents, awkward refusals of invitations, precious time with friends replaced by gardening, canning, mending, building, working. I search for political solutions, an advocacy muted by the cowardice of my personal choices. In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him.”

Kate Marvel, Ph.D., physicist, climate scientist

https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/


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