Not BE Reread. America runs on less than 2/3 fossil fuels. Down even more since 2015 but can't find succinctly.

[David Morris]

And then this “The Margenalia” (formerly “Brain Pickings”) popped into my
mail, and I thought the intro was beautiful, and apropos to this heavy
thread:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


*In the autumn of 1664, when the black plague shrouded the world in a
deadly pandemic and universities sent their students home for a quarantine
the end of which no one could foresee, a young man besotted with
mathematics, motion, and light returned to his illiterate mother’s orchard,
where he watched an apple fall. A revolution of understanding rose in its
shadow — he fathomed the mechanics of a mystery
<https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/06/newton-plague/> that had
enchanted humanity for epochs: how bodies can act on other bodies,
attracting one another impalpably and invisibly across space and
separation, as if by magic.*


*Religions had called it grace. Science, with the young Newton at its helm,
called it gravity.*

[…]

*Centuries after Newton and generations after Carson and Cummings, Jane
Hirshfield — another philosopher-poet intimately attuned to the poetics of
reality, an ordained Zen Buddhist who thinks deeply and writes splendidly
about the living realities
<https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/03/15/today-another-universe-jane-hirshfield-ledger-jasmine/>
and lush
metaphors
<https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/14/jane-hirshfield-optimism-kelli-anderson-animation/>
of
the natural world — addressed this in a poem that has saved me, and
continues to save me, across many seasons of being. Originally published in
her 1988 lifeline of a collection Of Gravity & Angels
<https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/11/jane-hirshfield-for-what-binds-us/>
(public
library
<https://www.worldcat.org/title/of-gravity-angels/oclc/44023536&referer=brief_results>)
— a title evocative of the posthumous record of Simone Weil’s exquisite
consciousness, Gravity and Grace
<https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/24/simone-weil-friendship-separation/>
—
it is generously read here for us by the poet herself:*

https://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/love-death-counterfactuals?e=085ac54fc2



On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 10:51 AM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And then there’s that old bothersome mortality thing. Oh well, fuck it.
> Guess I’ll go read a book. A good book…
>
> linktr.ee/keithdavis
>
> On Nov 14, 2021, at 5:45 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh.  You found his point?  Well, I guess I didn’t see the point of his
> point.
>
> *Your point was*:  The US still generates about 1/3 of its electricity from
> coal (but that’s soon to decline).
>
> *His point was*:  Yeah, but we still burn a shitload of oil and gas for all
> sorts of other necessary stuff.
>
> *More to that point,  you both could have just said*:  COP26 was a big
> failure, and we’re all pretty well fucked (but most of us will be dead
> before it gets too real).
>
> *And as Rich points out*:  We’re all complicit.
>
>
>
> But if you want a bunch of climate facts (points!!!) to make yourself into
> a real drag at the next party, download this:
>
> Free eBook: The Good Guide to Effective Climate Action in the 21st Century:
> “ You know climate change is a problem [right?], but what do you do next?
> This 99-page guide rounds up all you need to know about how (and why) to
> measure, reduce and offset your emissions—and help build a better future.”
>
> But…
> Oh, well…
> That’s better than NOTHING.
>
> David Morris
>
>