Greetings Earthlings. Yes, we know every day is Earth Day and every week is Earth Week, in fact every year is Earth Year here on The Enviro Show but what's anyone doing about it?? Christene DeJong, Kate O'Connor and a Parrot named Sophie of Extinction Rebellion WMass join us to find out. [UPDATE! Checkout our "Trees as a Public Good" E-Week event HERE ] As always, we will also bring you along to learn about this week's Fool-on-the-Hill and to see if we are Abidin' with Biden, as well as another peak at the Charlie Baker Good Riddance Countdown Timer and more, but first it's time for...........Revenge of the Critters! You may have heard about Jonah and the Whale but who believes anything in that book written so long ago by unknowns? Today we have recorded evidence! (though it probably wasn't anyone named Jonah)
We have Breaking News! AG Healey's position paper on climate for her bid as Gov states: "Burning wood for bioenergy depletes our forests, increases greenhouse gas emissions, and is a threat to human health. Maura will end subsidies for forest bioenergy for electricity and commercial-scale heat. Maura will place a temporary moratorium on commercial harvesting on state-owned public forest land. Within her first year as Governor, she will develop and implement a science-based state forest management plan that accounts for the impacts of climate change on our forest resources and the role our forests can play in protecting the climate."
This week's Fool-on-the-Hill is another dangerous fool, the worst kind in fact 'cuz he's a bona fide fascist tool. Yes, it's a return appearance for Rep. Paul Gosar (Repugnican-AZ) who, after five weeks of silence, blames his staff for him showing up to speak at a white nationalist conference. Gosar claims "there was a miscommunication" even though Gosar attended the same event last year. 😏
We were Abidin' with Biden the other day when he referred to Putin's murderous war on Ukraine as genocide, and for being true to his word about putting an African-American woman on the Supreme Court as well as Low-income families will be able to lower their utility bills with $3.16 billion in funding for home retrofits made available by the Biden administration. However, that said, we also learned the "Biden administration announced it would uphold former President Donald Trump's decision to not regulate drinking water levels of a chemical used to make rocket fuel and explosives."? What's THAT about??
There it is! Our relatively new Charlie Baker Good Riddance Countdown Timer and Glen will most likely have something to say about that.
We've said it before, we'll say it again: Biomass Baker needs to wake-up 'cuz "It's the Climate Crisis, Stupid!" And with that in mind there's this: "Our data show that global emissions continue to move in the wrong
direction at a rapid pace," National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a statement. "The evidence is consistent, alarming, and undeniable." As
NOAA notes, carbon dioxide remains the biggest climate change threat.
However, scientists say that reducing methane emissions—the largest
anthropogenic sources of which are animal agriculture and energy
production—is relatively easy." [Full story HERE] And here is yet another example of climate criminals at work: "The publication of the third and final part of the
United Nations' latest comprehensive climate assessment... was postponed
by several hours after a contentious weekend of negotiations in which
wealthy governments attempted to weaken statements about green financing
for low-income nations and fossil fuel-producing countries objected to
unequivocal language about the need to quickly ditch coal, oil, and gas."
On to The Enviro Show Echo Chamber where Laura Haight, U.S. Policy Director at Partnership for Policy Integrity passes on the good news, "..the Massachusetts Senate passed a climate package (S.2819) that includes, for the first time ever, provisions to remove subsidies for woody biomass energy. We are thrilled that the Senate has affirmed that burning woody biomass is not clean energy and should not receive the same subsidies as clean renewable energy like wind and solar." That said, the next hurdle is in the House so, Enviro Show listeners, be sure to "call
your State Representative and urge them to join the Senate in taking
woody biomass out of the definition of clean energy sources. They can
show their support in two ways: 1. Co-sponsoring H3333, and 2. Asking House TUE Chair Jeff Roy and House leadership to include the same biomass provisions in the House climate bill." Finally, an Enviro Show Blog Action link on Endangered Species is HERE.
Time for our Quote of the Week and given it's Earth Week how about this:
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver." —Martin Luther King Jr
Following our conversation with this week's guests we go to the Bus Stop Billboard:
Friday April 29, 6pm. Vigil for Wynn Bruce. Extinction Rebellion Western Massachusetts will be conducting a reflective and regenerative vigil this Friday at 6 pm to honor the life of climate activist Wynn Bruce. This event will involve silent contemplation. We will gather outside the Northampton District Court. Go here for trigger warning and details
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