Earth Day

April 27, 2021 by Peter Terezakis Leave a Comment

Climate Diaspora: Our World, Our Problem

CLIMATE CHANGE DIASPORA: OUR WORLD, OUR PROBLEM The role that climate change will play in the future of human migration is underestimated. As droughts, floods, and rising sea levels continue to increase, affected populations the world over will be forced to relocate, adding millions of people to a climate-induced diaspora. On April 22nd Andrew Harper, Special Advisor on Climate Action to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), NYU Provost K. E. Fleming, Dr. David Holland, Denise Holland, Vice Provost Yanoula Athanassakis, and Peter Terezakis for a special one-hour Earth Day discussion on the coming climate diaspora. Climate Change Diaspora: Our World, Our Problem was a discussion on how mitigating climate-related displacement and migration will become one of humanity’s greatest challenges. — (click)

April 22, 2021 by Peter Terezakis Leave a Comment

Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day

March 16, 2021 by Peter Terezakis Leave a Comment

Activists, James Hansen

Activists* 16 March 2021 James Hansen Activism is not fun. The pay is bad (usually zero or less). It’s hard work to get any attention. Hard-core activists (not dilettantes like Bill McKibben and me) put a lot on the line, even their lives. The commitment and bravery of indigenous people is inspiring. The hardest thing about activism is that it often seems to have little effect, if any. The Race to Save the World, a film by Joe Gantz, will be released on Earth Day, April 22. The link is to a 9-minute trailer. The film realistically captures characters who take real risks and the impacts on their loved ones and on themselves. Implicitly it raises questions about the best way to achieve environmental goals. It’s not like 1970 when the public could see pollution in the air and in the water – activists could bring 20,000,000 people into the streets for the first Earth Day. My first acquaintance with activists was at Coal River Mountain, a protest against mountaintop removal led by Larry Gibson and Judy Bonds. Surely, we have solved that horrific assault on the environment by now, right? Nope. Vernon Haltom of Coal River Mountain Watch tells me that it’s still happening and leases for such mining are still being obtained. Can somebody please let Joe Biden, John Kerry and Gina McCarthy know about it? Judy Bonds and Larry Gibson are no longer with us, having died young, as is all too common in Appalachia. — click

Race To Save The World

October 4, 2020 by Peter Terezakis Leave a Comment

4 Ocean

April 22, 2019 by Peter Terezakis Leave a Comment

Twenty-four magazine covers about climate change

24 Magazine Covers About Climate Change We know that the clock is ticking on climate change, yet the sheer volume of news can make it tough for even the most conscientious citizen to comprehend the full scale of the crisis. So for Earth Day, we created a different way to read about climate change: an all-cover issue of The Washington Post Magazine, with each cover illustrating an aspect of climate change that The Post wrote about in the past year or so. Scroll down to see the stories — and the covers we created to highlight them. Published April 17, 2019 — 24 Magazine Covers
About Climate Change
We know that the clock is ticking on climate change, yet the sheer volume of news can make it tough for even the most conscientious citizen to comprehend the full scale of the crisis. So for Earth Day, we created a different way to read about climate change: an all-cover issue of The Washington Post Magazine, with each cover illustrating an aspect of climate change that The Post wrote about in the past year or so. Scroll down to see the stories — and the covers we created to highlight them.
Published April 17, 2019