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Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: How Sandy Reveals the GDP’s Twisted Logic
By John Talberth and Daphne Wysham Extreme weather doesn’t boost the economy.
As he waded knee-deep in an Atlantic City street, pummeled by Superstorm Sandy’s winds, CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi declared that it was too early to tell whether Sandy would be a plus or a minus for the U.S. economy. The authorities are starting to tabulate [...] -
Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: On Not Scaring Ourselves to Death: Moving Beyond the Adrenalin Rush of “Frankenstorm” to Real Energy Independence
There’s nothing quite like the adrenalin high of a good storm. It’s like a horror film we can’t stop watching: And this “Frankenstorm,” coming right on Halloween, is giving us the best of the worst of storms. As the waters rise, the weathercasters feed our high, red circles and arrows signaling danger. We are glued to [...] -
Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: The Six Stages of Climate Grief
Now that the hottest summer on record is drawing to a close, are we any closer to admitting that climate change is upon us? If not, why not? It might have something to do with the five stages of grief. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified these stages as denial, then anger, followed by bargaining, depression, and acceptance. [...] -
Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: One Reason Behind India’s Blackout: World Bank Policies and Neoliberalism
One-tenth of the planet’s people—one-half of India’s population– lost power completely this week, with a blackout covering most of north India’s highly populated states. What was the reason for the blackout? While pundits and politicians postulate on the reasons for the power failure, one answer is clear: an ideology of neoliberalism foisted on India by the [...] -
Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: A Perfect and Hot Storm: It’s time to save ourselves from a climate nightmare of our own making.
It was the stuff of nightmares: I was driving home down Route 66 when I first saw the wind, blowing debris horizontally in front of me at up to 80 miles an hour. Then lightning began forking all around. The night sky was ablaze. Large trees sprawled across several lanes of traffic. The rain pelted down [...] -
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Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever: As the climate changes, a deadly disease is on the rise.
I recently returned to my childhood home in India with my siblings for a final walk down memory lane with my elderly mother. As expected, it was a powerfully emotional experience. But in ways unexpected, it brought home to me how our planetary fever — climate change — is inflicting a deadly fever on those least [...] -
Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: Ditching GDP for a “Genuine Progress Indicator”?
Tent cities and shacks sprung up on empty lots across the country. Food lines at soup kitchens wrapped around city blocks. Unemployment soared to 25 percent. Farmers watched helplessly as crop prices plummeted, then lost their land. The evidence was clear, yet at the height of the Great Depression, Congress lacked the tools to accurately measure [...] -
Daphne Wysham wrote a new diary post: A Mother’s Plea for Sasha and Malia: No Tar Sands Pipeline!
As a single mother whose life’s work has largely focused on solving the climate crisis, I’m often in a quandary: how much do I share of the work I do on this issue — which overwhelms those rare adults who immerse themselves in the details with grief — with my 11-year-old son? When I posed this [...] -
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