"The two oceans: twin hearts." Your piece is achingly beautiful and this time is achingly sad...and full of opportunity to find new ways to live here amid all this wonder and destruction.
Hello K.! Thank you for your comments. Especially your "amid all this wonder and destruction" line- beautiful! You know I never intended this newsletter to be topical. Current events, politics, events of the moment. But recently LUD has taken a temporary turn in that direction admittedly. Today's repost was motivated by my reading Rick Thoman's substack, Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter, and seeing the Arctic March Average Temperature chart 1950-2024. Scarier than any movie I've ever seen.
Couldn't agree more! I think it starts in our hearts and then spreads outward from there! It's a "first mile" thing. Bridging the short distance from heart to action.
I was going to comment that I’d just read Kathleen Sullivan’s post this morning in Code Red on resilience , which gave me the strength to read your post, Michael…. And I see she’s commented here already! Thank you for re-posting your thoughtful editorial.
Hello Laura,. So good to hear from you! I'm sorry about the gloom haunting LUD lately, I really am. One of the hallmarks of our (it's a joint playground for both readers and the writer) newsletter is that there's an undertone of humor present ofttimes. We've gotten very serious of late! Not that there's not a super-abundance of things to be serious about! I'm not going to do a lot of future posts about the current clade of H5N1- it's on everyone's radar now. Nor will I tell you about a scary new pathogen-.our planet's first space-borne bug, detected on the space station in the water filtration system, nor the nightmare Lacazia loboi fungus, moving northward, nor that worrisome CCHF that has been around Eurasia for centuries but now seems to be showing some signs of getting ambitious again..almost like the Mongol armies waking up and getting on their ponies again!
That space-borne bug is Elizabethkingia miricola, first discovered in the MIR water filtration system back in 1997. It got carried back to earth presumably by a cosmonaut and escaped into the wild. Hollywood material!
The depth of analysis in your post captures the urgency of our environmental situation with vivid clarity. It’s a powerful reminder that our actions today shape the future, not just for ourselves but for all life on Earth. Thank you for sharing such a critical perspective—let's keep the conversation and actions going. Every effort counts!
We have to walk a middle path between being frozen into inaction by the overwhelming nature of the threat or being content to rest in complacency by the feeling that others are fixing the problem.
"The two oceans: twin hearts." Your piece is achingly beautiful and this time is achingly sad...and full of opportunity to find new ways to live here amid all this wonder and destruction.
Hello K.! Thank you for your comments. Especially your "amid all this wonder and destruction" line- beautiful! You know I never intended this newsletter to be topical. Current events, politics, events of the moment. But recently LUD has taken a temporary turn in that direction admittedly. Today's repost was motivated by my reading Rick Thoman's substack, Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter, and seeing the Arctic March Average Temperature chart 1950-2024. Scarier than any movie I've ever seen.
"We shouldn't sit paralyzed, we can act- personally, locally, and globally." amen! All we can do is what we can do locally!
Couldn't agree more! I think it starts in our hearts and then spreads outward from there! It's a "first mile" thing. Bridging the short distance from heart to action.
I was going to comment that I’d just read Kathleen Sullivan’s post this morning in Code Red on resilience , which gave me the strength to read your post, Michael…. And I see she’s commented here already! Thank you for re-posting your thoughtful editorial.
Hello Laura,. So good to hear from you! I'm sorry about the gloom haunting LUD lately, I really am. One of the hallmarks of our (it's a joint playground for both readers and the writer) newsletter is that there's an undertone of humor present ofttimes. We've gotten very serious of late! Not that there's not a super-abundance of things to be serious about! I'm not going to do a lot of future posts about the current clade of H5N1- it's on everyone's radar now. Nor will I tell you about a scary new pathogen-.our planet's first space-borne bug, detected on the space station in the water filtration system, nor the nightmare Lacazia loboi fungus, moving northward, nor that worrisome CCHF that has been around Eurasia for centuries but now seems to be showing some signs of getting ambitious again..almost like the Mongol armies waking up and getting on their ponies again!
And so forth and so on.
That space-borne bug is Elizabethkingia miricola, first discovered in the MIR water filtration system back in 1997. It got carried back to earth presumably by a cosmonaut and escaped into the wild. Hollywood material!
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1491_article
Yee gads! Thanks for the run down.
I relish your great humor and also appreciate your serious material. Just need a good beer and/or a hopeful story before diving in sometimes! 🫣
I'm with you!
The depth of analysis in your post captures the urgency of our environmental situation with vivid clarity. It’s a powerful reminder that our actions today shape the future, not just for ourselves but for all life on Earth. Thank you for sharing such a critical perspective—let's keep the conversation and actions going. Every effort counts!
We have to walk a middle path between being frozen into inaction by the overwhelming nature of the threat or being content to rest in complacency by the feeling that others are fixing the problem.