Karla Reinhardt

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article) Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Our system is already broken. The solution isn’t to keep breaking things. Vote them out while you still can.

Work less, volunteer more, spend more time outdoors!

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

New research shows the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada have probably existed since the last Ice Age more than 11,000 years ago. The remnants of these glaciers are projected to disappear in the coming decades as temperatures continue to rise. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Firefighters Race to Save a Treasured Sequoia Grove in California

Firefighters Race to Save a Treasured Sequoia Grove in California (gift link). I hope they’re able to save them. I was just here in July.

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Work/life balance.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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A painting of a bird next to the words"log the fuck off"

“They are offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us. It is demeaning to pretend that they represent something besides a logic of destruction.”

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

If it were a true “energy emergency,” wouldn’t we need all we could get?

Reminder to take a mental health break today. #sailing #dolphins

Cadillac Desert: Jimmy Carter chapter

Interesting timing to read this chapter on Carter’s National Day of Mourning and while LA burns. #climatechange #drought #LAfires

The LA Fires and the Big Bang The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness

Poignant piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social
"the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us."
The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

I’m thankful for some good news this week. There are so many excellent science and environment people here now. I left Twitter when Tweetbot was disabled and I couldn’t control my feed. 666 days ago!

I’d like to share my invite code with wildlife biologists or climate scientists. Let me know if someone needs one.