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what were the best climate stories of 2020? Climate writers: what did you write that youâre really proud of? Climate readers: what did you read that stuck with you? Weâll kick it off with our favorites from our own @amywestervelt and @MaryHeglar
âThe idea that a tech-only solution will even workâthat it's the power source, not the power structure that's the problemâseems like something only a very privileged demographic could believe.â @amywestervelt https://realhottake.substack.com/p/debate-me-bro
âYes, it's true that you can't solve the climate crisis alone, but it's even more true that we can't solve it without you. It's a team sport.ââ @MaryHeglar https://www.wired.com/story/what-you-can-do-solve-climate-change/
Did yâall know @amywestervelt launched a whole other podcast in 2020 about motherhood? In this conversation with @bethsawin, climate change takes center stage and itâs downright hopeful. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/labor/id1524251605?i=1000489733245
âIf anything, our crises have deepened my commitment to the collective responsibility to children. We, each of us, owe all of these children everything we have, because they are all we have left â whether or not theyâre âours.âââ @MaryHeglar https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/opinion/essay-shrinking-world-what-will-we-pass-our-children/
In Season 5 of @WeAreDrilled, @amywestervelt took us on the wild ride through one of the worst environmental disasters in history in the Amazon in Ecuador and Chevronâs vendetta against a lawyer https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s5-ep1-lockdown/id1439735906?i=1000492477177
âSo itâs not just time to talk about climate â itâs time to talk about it as the Black issue it is. Itâs time to stop whitewashing it. In other words, itâs time to stop #AllLivesMattering the climate crisis.ââ @MaryHeglar https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-crisis-racism-environmenal-justice_n_5ee072b9c5b6b9cbc7699c3d
While they thought no one was looking, the Tr*mp admin and fossil fuel cronies were taking advantage of the pandemic to get rid of those pesky regulations. One problem: @amywestervelt was looking, and documenting. https://www.drillednews.com/post/the-climate-covid-19-policy-tracker
âFor those of us who saw this coming, there is absolutely no joy in having been right, no âwe told you soâ parties, no gleeful vindication. Only deeper, more visceral mourning.ââ @MaryHeglar https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/2020-crises-wildfires-pandemic-election-climate-crisis-1069907/
âThe COVID-19 pandemic shows more clearly than ever that individual action to tackle the climate crisis will never be enough without a parallel systemic change focused on emissions reductions. Itâs not an either-or situation.ââ @amywestervelt https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-individual-actions-fossil-fuels_n_5eb2adb9c5b6ae37c13bbb3a
âa world in which we have solved for climate, but leave intact the racist and exploitative systems that created the crisis, is not, in fact, a world in which we have solved for climate.ââ @MaryHeglar https://www.drillednews.com/post/climate-denial-by-any-other-name
