A Cool Summer Solstice Enviro Show

Greetings Earthlings. Another Summer Solstice draws near, are you ready? The Good Green Witch calls in to find out. Also, we guess you are cool with finding ways to combat the Climate crisis, yes? Kurt Shickman, Executive Director of Global Cool Cities gets in touch with us about other ways to cool it besides protecting and preserving forests. Got it?As always we'll also take you for a visit with this week's Fool-on-the-Hill and to witness His Malignancy The Mad King and his enablers tear this nation apart, as well as to remind you.....wait, not YOU but those who have been focused on racking up selfies and shopping for the latest that....It's the Climate Crisis, Stupid! But first it's time for..............Revenge of the Critters! This Deer turned the tables on a French hunting party.

This week's Fool-on-the-Hill is Repugnican congressman Doug LaMalfa of Redding, CA ranking member of the House Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee who cosponsored the euphemistically titled "Emergency Forest Restoration Act" to loosen environmental regulations on our national forests. LaMalfa also sits on the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee where he does what he can to trash the planet. "I think there's a lot of bad science behind what people are calling global warming," LaMalfa said at a public meeting in 2017. What can we say?

Another national action calling for His Malignancy's impeachment is upon us so we may as well add this one to the growing list of reasons why: "Trump's War on Science Is Grounds to Impeach". The article in Common Dreams notes: "Trump and his administration are slashing common-sense regulations and censoring science to enrich their fossil fuel industry backers, exposing the country and the whole world to potentially catastrophic consequences. They are literally willing to endanger human lives and the very future of humanity for corporate profit." And,as part of The Mad King's War on Science his enablers barred a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony to the House Intelligence Committee stating that human-caused climate change is “possibly catastrophic.” Wait, it doesn't take much intelligence to know that! Meanwhile, if you're planning any pipeline protests anytime soon you should know His Malignancy is proposing pipeline protesters to face up to 20 years in prison for disrupting the construction of fossil fool infrastructure. And this: The Mad King's court also proposed earlier this month to "exempt many new genetically engineered crops from regulation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under a broad overhaul of biotechnology rules". Finally, remember on the last show we passed some "Freedom Gas" your way? It seems some naysayers are claiming all that fracked fuel is actually "Failure Gas"! 

We guess no one needs to tell Massachusetts Senator Liz Warren that It's the Climate Crisis, Stupid! Her campaign for Prez "released its most comprehensive climate plan yet, a $2 trillion package that commits the federal government to spend $150 billion a year over the next decade on low-carbon technology, increases energy research funding tenfold, and funds a $100 billion Green Marshall Plan to aid the poorer countries projected to suffer the worst as global temperatures rise". So, the heat is on and the folks at Grist tell us: "One of the deadliest threats posed by the climate crisis is extreme heat. It kills more Americans every year than any other weather-related event. When your body can no longer regulate its core temperature, the result can be heat exhaustion, stroke, heart attack, or a range of other health problems that have the potential to bring about an untimely end." The piece points toward a new study that points out "a clear need to strengthen mitigation ambition to stabilize the climate at the Paris Agreement goal of warming of less than 2°C."  Of course, the opposite of possible solutions to climate chaos is contributions to it and that's what Brazil's Mad King is doing. It seems President Bolsonaro is intent on decriminalizing Amazon deforestation, ending fines for illegal logging, straitjacketing law enforcement, and gutting environmental agencies with mass firings. Sound familiar?

Time for The Enviro Show Quote of the Week:   "There's really good research showing that allergy seasons are getting more severe, and more people are developing allergies, because of climate change," said Dr. John Costa, Medical director of the Allergy Clinic at Brigham and Women's  Hospital.  

 


  
 

That's it for now. Please remember to listen to you Mother!