Tag Archives: climate change

A Map to the Next World

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2019

Spiritual Sunday The latest news on climate change continues to be horrific as we battle through the hottest summer on record. The heat wave is hitting countries all over the world, with France at one point posting temperatures of 114 degrees. In other words, we are witnessing human impact on the earth as never before. […]

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Winter’s Assyrian Invasion

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2019

Monday When the polar vortex descended on the United States last week, the opening lines from Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib” came to mind. While I’d memorized the stanza in high school to learn anapestic meter (short-short-long), it captures the emotional force of extreme weather events. (Another Byron poem that does so is “Darkness”) […]

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Byron’s Climate Change Nightmare

By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2018

Wednesday News about climate change grows grimmer by the month, with the latest governmental reports predicting that extreme weather events will kill thousands while devastating national economies. I therefore share today a 19th century climate change poem although, in this instance, the climate grows colder rather than warmer. In 1816 the world experienced “the year without […]

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We Have Chance the Gardener as Prez!

By Robin Bates | Published: November 18, 2018

Trump’s recent remarks about California forest management indicate that he really is Kosinski’s Chance the Gardener.

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Befouling America’s Future

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2018

MacDonald’s “Princess and Curdie” has an apocalyptic image that captures how Trump is fouling America’s future.

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Climate Change, a Witch’s Curse

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2018

Leslie Marmon Silko has an account of ecological disaster in her novel “Ceremony” (also “Almanac of the Dead” that is only too relevant.

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Elemental Joy in California’s Wildfires?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2018

Friday Just as warming waters are causing bigger and more frequent hurricanes, so climate change is contributing to the intensity of California’s wildfires. The fires this year so far have burned 98,000 acres and killed six people, who can be added to the 44 who died last year.  An essay I wrote last October remains […]

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Attacked Journalists Should Read Ibsen

By Robin Bates | Published: August 2, 2018

Henrik Ibsen’s protagonist in “Enemy of the People” offers a model for journalists under attack by Trump.

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Climate Change Witchery

By Robin Bates | Published: July 30, 2018

Leslie Marmon Silko’s nightmare vision of environmental destruction is being hastened by the Trump administration.

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