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With only nine or so vaquitas left in Mexican waters with little control on deadly nets set for a black-market fish, silence is replacing this tiny porpoise's vocalizations. Extinction looms. But the next 6 weeks can make a real difference. Read. Share: revkin.bulletin.com/41778589089738… 1/
Last week I was poised to write game over - that the conservation community should conserve resources for other efforts. I'd kept track via my @nytimes #dotearth blog for years, as numbers plunged from a couple hundred to a handful. China, particularly, seemed immovable. 2/ 
But in an interview last week, longtime vaquita scientist Barbara Taylor of @NOAAFisheries laid out four compelling reasons why a last-chance porpoise protection push is justified. The remaining handful of vaquitas are wary, fat and healthy, and not genetically bottlenecked. 3/
There's a logic fail in my old friend @billmckibben's effort to derail @DKeithClimate's plan to loft a balloon in Sweden. Arguing even this tiny step toward assessing #SRM must wait until '30 misses how long it takes to do anything related to climate. newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
Every facet of the global climate challenge is super tough and requires years (generations even) of effort. Today's photovoltaic, LED, and battery successes did not arise from Musk-style entrepreneurship. They started with grinding basic study, like lofting a first balloon. 2/
And I'm no #SRM fan. I see no prospect this tech will used at scale in my or Bill's lifetimes (there's no plausible "lone actor" scenario & governments will never agree on full-scale deployment). But I do see merit in understanding what's possible. dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/mor… 3/
With Earth experiencing hyper-fast change in human footprints, heat-trapping CO2, species mobility, energy & information tech, what the hell do you work on to boost confidence in sustainable progress? (Add deep complexity + @deepuncertainty)
Boost & spread key *capacities*. 1/3
Boost & spread key *capacities*. 1/3
In 2013, I proposed this shorthand for capacities to boost and spread in pursuit of #SDGs or your preferred definition of enduring human progress on a thriving planet:
Bend, stretch, reach, teach, reveal, reflect, rejoice, repeat. #DotEarth context: j.mp/bendstretchrea… 2/3
Bend, stretch, reach, teach, reveal, reflect, rejoice, repeat. #DotEarth context: j.mp/bendstretchrea… 2/3
I explored this "bend, stretch, reach, teach..." menu in a @TEDx talk in Portland: j.mp/tedxperfect 3/3
It's evolved since then. I have added the word "respect"... Wonder why..
Watch, read, react (with respect).
It's evolved since then. I have added the word "respect"... Wonder why..
Watch, read, react (with respect).
