City Atlas

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"Oh, there’s a big storm coming. I guess we’ll buy some extra food. And then we didn’t realize, like, Okay, this is what we were in for. There was just not a good understanding of what was coming."

-- Ellie Johnston of Climate Interactive, interviewed by our high school podcast team about the days and weeks after Helene.

https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/people/ellie-johnston/

Ellie Johnston - City Atlas

"We're in Asheville. This is a mountain community. We thought we were safe from hurricanes."

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Together, these two faiths crave the end of American liberal democracy and government. You can smell it at GSA.

They won't replace us with AI because π’•π’‰π’†π’š 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 π’˜π’‚π’π’• 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.

And Adam asked our high school interviewer a question of his own:

After reading the IPCC 1.5 report, Adam Aron jettisoned his rising career in cognitive neuroscience in order to focus on building a climate movement.

Meanwhile, there's no school curriculum on climate in NYC. So a student asked Adam about his findings:

https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/people/adam-aron/

Adam Aron - City Atlas

"I’m curious, you know, just how you cope emotionally with knowing what you do. You’re doing these incredible interviews, and you have no illusions about how grave this all is, and how compromised in a way our lives are going to be in the next few decades. How do you deal with those feelings?"

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Time to reshare I think. β€œI don’t want my portraits to hang in your offices, because the president is not an icon or an idol. Hang pictures of your children there and look them in the eyes before every decision” – Volodymyr Zelensky

In our podcast series, high school students ask experts to design a climate curriculum for high school. Mariana of @climaximo is a teacher, and she has ideas:

https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/people/mariana-of-climaximo/

Mariana of ClimΓ‘ximo - City Atlas

"What is the agreement that we can do in terms of, like, the context that we are living in, and how does that change our strategies?"

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January Tesla sales are down 75% in Spain, 63% in France, 59% in Germany, 44% in Sweden, 38% in Norway, 42% in the Netherlands, and 33% in Australia. I guess being a nazi is bad for business. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

Of the major news websites I've checked, only the Associated Press has any mention of the thousands of people protesting across the country right now. Others apparently find it more newsworthy to talk about who is getting a new show on Fox News.

Pathetic.

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The news media has been mismanaged, starved of resources and the power to counteract disinformation from vested interests, and too often treating a stable climate as something "scientists want" instead of something everyone needs.