The Enviro Show SOS

Greetings Earthlings. It's SOS time on the show. Take 'yur pick: Save Our Station or Save Our Swallows, how about both? Yes, it's Valley Free Radio's Fall Fund Drive beginning Sunday at WXOJ and Save our Swallows with Mara Silver returning to the show once again Tuesday, 6 to 7pm. and Thursday at 2pm. Save Our Swallows is having a "Stand for the Swallows" protest event to show your support for saving the unique, thriving Barn Swallow colony on Saturday Nov 16, 10 to noon, at the intersection of Rt 9 & 116 in Hadley. Also on the show we'll take you to see this week's Fool-on-the-Hill and to watch His Malignancy The Mad King sinking along with His ship of fools, as well as a reminder (as if you needed it) that It's the Climate Crisis, Stupid! But first it's time for..........Revenge of the Critters! Since certain Russian parties don't mind meddling in our affairs here in the States we take some interest in one of their bears meddling with  humans who believe they can train them.

This week's Fool-on-the-Hill is Rep. Gary Palmer Repugnican from Alabama’s Sixth District.  Palmer, in a statement announcing his appointment to the House Climate Crisis Committee, said he wants the committee to “focus on sensible solutions” but did not acknowledge a crisis and placed “climate change” in quotation marks. That’s not a surprise to some local environmental activists. Palmer was described as a “known climate denier” by the Sierra Club.

His Malignancy The Mad King took a lot of heat from the crowd at the 5th World Series game recently with booing and chants of "Lock him up!" Some of his enablers are whining about the sports fans' "incivility" conveniently forgetting about His Malignancy's near daily uncivil remarks and actions, not to mention high crimes and misdemeanors. None of this should surprise anyone who has witnessed the Repugnicans ongoing fall from grace over the past few decades. They were trained on campus as Young Repugnicans on how to be so......repugnant.  Speaking of which, The Mad King formally begins bailing from the Paris climate deal  this week. Karen Orenstein, Friends of the Earth's deputy director of economic policy noted: "When the U.S. has more sane leadership and rejoins the international community, the Paris agreement needs to be substantially more equitable and ambitious." Sane leadership, what a concept! And this: The Mad King's dark prince heading the Environmental "Protection" Agency (EPA), former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler had a surprise last week. Wheeler, who worked as a senior aide to Republican Sen. James Inhofe, one of the world's worst climate criminals, is presently engaged in gutting the very agency he heads. But surprise, a group of air pollution and public health experts reconvened to review the latest science and offer public recommendations for new air quality regulations, one year after they were fired by Wheeler! Finally, the EPA is now rolling back rules controlling toxic ash from coal plants. Surprise!

We guess you know It's the Climate Crisis, Stupid, yes? Speaking of an SOS. The present other worldly wildfires engulfing California are another climate related SOS, but did you ever think about who suffers the most during such disasters? Wait, what about the critters?? How about whether large swaths of the state becoming uninhabitable? And Common Dreams reports: "Leah Stokes, assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, criticized the corporate media for ignoring the role of the climate crisis in the fires and explained that the scientific research about what's happening in California is crystal clear." No such lack of dot connecting here on The Enviro Show!

After you make your pledge to Valley Free Radio and we hear from Mara it's on to the Bus Stop Billboard:

Saturday, November 16, 10 AM – 12pm. Stand for the Swallows Protest Event. The habitat of the largest known Barn Swallow colony in Massachusetts is in danger of destruction by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This colony nests in an abandoned stable at Fort River Refuge in Hadley. Join us for a Stand for the Swallows protest event to show your support for saving this unique, thriving Barn Swallow colony. Stay for 10 minutes or the entire 2 hours. Bring a sign or hold one of ours. Go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/485988478677552/ 

Sunday, November 17,  1pm. the Wendell State Forest Alliance celebrates  National Take a Hike Day by inviting hikers and mountain bikers to Wendell State Forest to hear a brief talk on the Wendell Ghost Forest and to go for a hike or bike lead by Alliance members. National Take a Hike Day in the United States is an annual event .  An orientation meet-up will begin shortly after 1pm. where maps and information will be shared.  For more information email: savebrookrdforest@gmail.com 

Monday, November 18, 1-3pm  Public Meetings for Stakeholder Input on Greenhouse Gas Regulations at MassDEP’s Central Regional Office, 8 New Bond Street, Worcester, MA. If you would like to be added to the stakeholder list to receive additional information about this topic, including stakeholder meeting announcements and instructions for providing input, please email climate.strategies@mass.gov 


Tuesday, November 19, 10:30am.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Flag and Seal Bill (House Bill H2776 / Senate Bill S1877) will be presented at a hearing at the MA State House after a rally and press conference on the Boston Common. Go to: http://maindigenousagenda.org/state-flag-and-seal/  


Monday November 25, 7 to 9pm. Monthly Climate Action Now! Gathering. Unitarian Meetinghouse on N. Pleasant St (downtown), Amherst, MA. Go to: https://climateactionnowma.org/calendar/ 

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