“Willow” Sounds Pretty, But It’s Death And Decay

Big Oil extraction in the Arctic will, absolutely, kill the innocent

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Roaring Rivers

Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.

There are numbers plus the numberless

The Willow site oil project, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska, is not in your best interest.

It is true it will create around 2,000 temporary jobs for those living in our temporary times. It will provide fuel — the toxic kind — , that will add just over nine metric tons of CO2 per year to our already burning/storming atmosphere. It will further empower the rich special interests groups to push harder to use up what pristine hope (and world) we have left. It will put those with the most wealth, power, and influence in control of what happens to you and your family. It will savage habitats. But it won’t just kill the most vulnerable and innocent citizens of Earth, our wildlife, it will also hurt people on the other side of the planet.

Worst of all, perhaps, is something that we can’t put numbers upon. It will further encourage those already living in climate injustice, grief, poverty, disease, and despair, to give up just when we…