Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with climate
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Rich People Have Agency
Take notes. I am a radical. Not a democrat. Not a republican. There are no independents. They employ the same political and cultural infrastructure – how things work – that the rest of us are compelled to use. Climate: Not a word. It’s the Trump go to for climate change,…
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Tim Barrus: The Heat Is Killing Us
I live on a remote mountain in the Blue Ridge. We have been losing our squirrels in this intense heat. Coyote pups born in the spring can’t walk or run. Deer struggle to get up. Where I could count the number of cat birds per acre on two hands, today,…
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What Extinction: Tim Barrus NYT
Our extinction. Writers are always telling me that we must all be hopeful. Are you fucking kidding me. The environment was destroyed a long time ago. There is nothing left to save. I have given up. On humanity. We are, in fact, Australopithecines. Homo sapiens are so smart, so brilliant,…
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Americans Are the Stupid Monsters of the Planet
Famine. It’s not my fault. Hmmm. How stupid are they. You have to literally drift around the world a few times before it hits you like a kick to the testicles. Stupidity and morality are synonymous, evolutionary processes. You can’t have one without the other. Stupidity is the self-inflicted blinders…