After a terminal diagnosis, activist Steve Hamm said he wanted to die consciously with his friends around him. Judy Alexander and about twenty friends committed to being his care team. In training meetings with professional end-of-life caregiver Kippi Waters, they learned … [Read more...]
Janaia Offers the Last Word in Grief Video
Guy McPherson, intrepid chronicler of abrupt climate disruption, recently declared he has arrived at stage #7 of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's Five Stages of Grief.* (His self-defined stage #6 is "Gallows Humor," some of which he shared with us in Living Each Moment in the Face of … [Read more...]
Living Each Moment in the Face of Abrupt Climate Change (291)
"It's pretty clear by now the methane gun has been fired in the Arctic ocean, so we're headed for very abrupt warming. What does that mean in terms of how we live? I think it means we live with urgency. We live with love. We live passionately." More people are paying … [Read more...]
Climate Change and Human Extinction — A Personal Perspective (262)
"Just one source, methane from the arctic…leads us [by 2030] to…a temperature beyond which humans have never existed on the planet." Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of University of Arizona in Environmental Studies, shares highlights from his compilation of recent reports … [Read more...]