Notices by Eric Holthaus (ericholthaus@spore.social)

Absolutely bonkers things are happening right now across the whole of the North Atlantic Ocean — far far outside historical norms.

This should be the front-page news — that fossil fuel executives are making our planetary emergency worse so they can get even richer.

We are in a climate emergency.

April 2023 will be *by far* the hottest month for the Earth's oceans we've ever measured.

It's graphs like this that make scientists like me lose sleep at night.

We are in a climate emergency.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

If there's a voice that speaks to these liminal times we are in, it's Octavia Butler. I just found this essay from a few weeks ago — it's an essential weekend read.

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism — via Lit Hub

https://lithub.com/how-to-survive-in-broken-worlds-jesmyn-ward-on-octavia-butlers-empathy-and-optimism/

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