Global Warming. Climate Change. Climate Crisis. Climate Emergency. Whatever label we use, we are facing one of the greatest challenges to the survival of life as we know it.
But while addressing greenhouse gases is perhaps our most urgent need, it’s not our only task. We must also address toxic waste, pollution, habitat destruction, and our other contributions to the world’s sixth mass extinction event.
To do that, we must simultaneously address the unmet human needs that keep us distracted from deeper engagement in stabilizing our climate: economic inequality, universal healthcare, tuition-free college and vocational training, fare-free public transit, and subsidized childcare.
And to accomplish that, we must unite to combat the monied forces that use fear, prejudice, and misinformation to manipulate us.
It’s a daunting task. But success is our only option.
Table of Content
Treating a Critically Ill Climate
Superstition Is Leading Us Toward Extinction
Can We Stop the Asteroid Heading for Earth?
One Million Elephants in Miami
I’m Two Days Older Than You, So I’m Always Right
Drawing a Line in the Tar Sands
A Treatment Plan for Stage 3 Climate Cancer
Bracing Ourselves for Climate Combat
Missing the Forest for the (Dead) Trees
Fossil Fuels Anonymous
Let’s Put a Brake on Traffic Pollution
Climate Change Deniers Are Committing Mass Murder-Suicide
Palliative Care for Humanity
Dead Mankind Walking
Grab What We Can and Run
Chicken Little: One if by Land, Two if by Sea
What Have You Got Against a Stable Climate?
Retrofitting Notre Dame
Is Recycling Dinosaurs Cost Effective?
An Air Freshener for the Outhouse
Environmental Serial Killers
Murderers of Old Men
God Himself Couldn’t Burn This Planet…But Human Hubris Can
Organic Water, Clean Natural Gas, and Gift-wrapped Garbage
Climate Crisis Threatens the Mormon Church
If Climate Change Is Real But Not Caused by Human Activity, Don’t We Still Need to Address It?
Our Climate Loan Has Come Due
Öl Macht Frei
The Climate Crisis Is World War III
My Mother’s Forced Abortion and Sterilization
Dinosaurs Building the World’s Largest Magnet
Let’s Wear Shorts to Church!
Make Earth Great Again
What if the Apocalypse Started and No One Cared?
Drunks Don’t Make the Rules Against Drunk Driving
What the Titanic Teaches Us about the Climate Crisis
Mormons Must Divest from Fossil Fuels
Choosing Luxury over Climate Solutions
Problem Deniers vs. Problem Solvers
Cutting Off Our Climate to Spite Our Civilization
The Answer to Climate Denial Can Be Found in Porn
Where Will I Go to Escape Climate Disaster Next Time?
The LDS Church Should Create Solar and Wind Farms
I Hope They Call Me on a Thermal Mission
We Can’t Eliminate Our Impact on Climate, but We Can Lessen It
Let’s Stop Digging Our Own Graves
I’m My Own Grandchild
Every Newscast Must Discuss Climate
Climate Inaction in Action
Let’s Celebrate Higher Gas Prices
Football Has Fans, Religion Exists, and Climate Change Is Real, Too
A Gastric Bypass for Global Warming
I’m Spending My Children’s Inheritance
This Isn’t the New Normal. These Are the Good Old Days.
Successful Citizens Are the Key to a Successful Nation
About the author
A climate crisis immigrant who relocated from New Orleans to Seattle in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Johnny Townsend wrote the first account of the Up Stairs Lounge fire, an attack on a French Quarter gay bar which killed 32 people in 1973. He was an associate producer for the documentary Upstairs Inferno, for the sci-fi film Time Helmet, and for the deaf gay short Flirting, with Possibilities. His books include Please Evacuate, Racism by Proxy, and Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries. His novel, Orgy at the STD Clinic, set entirely on public transit, details political extremism, climate upheaval, and anti-maskers in the midst of a pandemic.
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