We are not dead yet.
I'm in suburbia, we're not likely to burn the way towns like Mallacoota and Mogo have. We'll just swelter in the heat and turn up our aircon!
*cue a dozen angry people who can't bridge the sarchasm*
*cue another dozen angry people who need the air-con to keep from physically overheating*
I'm feeling cynical today. Apart from the news, there's an awful lot of failure to bridge the sarchasm happening and since black humour is my default when everything goes to hell, there's been a lot of back and forth.
Tomorrow will be 40C in my area. Let's be honest; my plants are probably not going to make it. I've been watering them as much as allowed, but it's seriously inadequate to the task at hand.
Anyway, have some links from the last couple of weeks.
Scientific American: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
The Cut: Can A Woman Ever Sound Right?
Healthy Midwestern Girl: African Peanut Stew
Out Abouter: Old Man Rage Levels Rise By 3m After Thunberg Named Person Of The Year
Taste: 20 Crowd-Wowing Christmas Desserts
The Global Church Project: A List of Australian and New Zealand Women Theologians
That last one was a list posted by an Australian Baptist Minister (Baptists in Australia are not like your American Southern Baptists) by the name of Mike Frost. He's very progressive, very forward thinking, good at asking the questions that maybe more conservative bits of Australia don't like having asked. (In contrast, John Dickson is on the conservative side of the scale, and also good at asking questions and feeling a way through complicated answers.)
Anyway, I think I've been watching the FB feeds too much. It is very echo chamber-y, and I know I need to get out.
...and then I briefly surfaced and discovered America has bombed Iran...
Look, the fires may burn me to a crisp, but at least it won't be watching America beat its chest to prove it's got the biggest balls in the world...
I'm in suburbia, we're not likely to burn the way towns like Mallacoota and Mogo have. We'll just swelter in the heat and turn up our aircon!
*cue a dozen angry people who can't bridge the sarchasm*
*cue another dozen angry people who need the air-con to keep from physically overheating*
I'm feeling cynical today. Apart from the news, there's an awful lot of failure to bridge the sarchasm happening and since black humour is my default when everything goes to hell, there's been a lot of back and forth.
Tomorrow will be 40C in my area. Let's be honest; my plants are probably not going to make it. I've been watering them as much as allowed, but it's seriously inadequate to the task at hand.
Anyway, have some links from the last couple of weeks.
Scientific American: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
The Cut: Can A Woman Ever Sound Right?
Healthy Midwestern Girl: African Peanut Stew
Out Abouter: Old Man Rage Levels Rise By 3m After Thunberg Named Person Of The Year
Taste: 20 Crowd-Wowing Christmas Desserts
The Global Church Project: A List of Australian and New Zealand Women Theologians
That last one was a list posted by an Australian Baptist Minister (Baptists in Australia are not like your American Southern Baptists) by the name of Mike Frost. He's very progressive, very forward thinking, good at asking the questions that maybe more conservative bits of Australia don't like having asked. (In contrast, John Dickson is on the conservative side of the scale, and also good at asking questions and feeling a way through complicated answers.)
Anyway, I think I've been watching the FB feeds too much. It is very echo chamber-y, and I know I need to get out.
...and then I briefly surfaced and discovered America has bombed Iran...
Look, the fires may burn me to a crisp, but at least it won't be watching America beat its chest to prove it's got the biggest balls in the world...