Aklim – Climate
Category: Politics
IPCC Report is a Potent Tool
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released this week and the media acts surprised by the dire warnings, blaring that the red alerts and apocalyptic alarms are sounding. They did until Governor Cuomo resigned the next day over…
Read MoreClimate Change Legislation in a Nutshell
Six Arenas Sitting in front of a computer screen in the middle of another Zoom conference on climate change, the exuberance of the presenters is consistently tested by the scope of the legislative endeavors that must pass. The issue is…
Read MoreSpeaking to More Than One Generation at the Same Time
In a review of Jewish sermons, speeches, and articles across denominations, one of the salient themes is the use of secular facts, figures, and arguments that are brought into a religious context. The greater world is understood as complimenting and…
Read MoreThe Limits of Religion and How It Informs the Religious Response to Climate Change
Part of addressing climate change is the technical challenges. The methods of science and engineering have proven themselves to be far more capable in providing probable solutions to climate change than religion. The sacred foundational texts and the subsequent holy…
Read More“They won’t fool us again!”
Jewish wisdom often has a peculiar slant of viewing the world that is out of sync with mainstream media and punditry. The joke, which is not particularly funny, runs like this: A man comes running to his rabbi exclaiming that…
Read MoreWho to Blame?
The time has passed when we should have been naming names. Give a shout out Rolling Stone magazine who has made the effort. You can read the article here.
Read MoreThe Question of Australia
Australia is a burnt husk of itself as devasting fires have devoured millions of acres and killed up to one billion animals. The smoke from the fires have traveled around the globe and back again to choke the southern continent….
Read MoreVoting by Climate Change
A candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado has posted an apocalyptic view of climate change as an ad campaign. (Aklim does not endorse any candidate for office.) This is the first cycle of elections where climate change is put…
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