HeyJaredRanger Dave Writes
Thoughts and tasty tidbits about Nature and navigating life in the 21st century by a NYC baby boomer transplanted to the Rocky Mountain West.
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Are We Climate Refugees? (opens the original)
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Helene and I are climate emigrants. Had we not moved last fall from the little town of Beulah where the Aspen Acres Fire just destroyed 193 primary residences, we would now be in the same predicament as all those that lost their homes – we’d be climate refugees. Maybe I’m hair-splitting – we emigrated, by making the deliberate choice to leave Beulah before the Aspen Acres Fire hit, as opposed to seeking refuge, being forced to leave because our house burned. Emigrants? Refugees? Either way, it w
Your Life is in Danger (opens the original)
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I wrote this last December, but the recent national outbreak of a severe gastrointestinal illness resulting in “explosive diarrhea” and caused by the cyclospora parasite seems like a good time to republish it. Sadly, I am not at all surprised by this - it is the natural but unfortunate outcome of electing Trump as president and the policies of Project 2025 that he has adopted. Your life is in danger. I don’t mean rhetorically in danger, but literally in danger. The chances of you getting sick, o
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