Greetings to GPM Subscribers, Investors & Friends
Monday greetings to all. Here's a picture of me and my friend Pete, years ago, when we were both younger, and Pete was alive.
So, I fell off the wagon -- or hopped back on the freelance hamster wheel. Report of mine for CBC's The World This Weekend, this past Saturday, about the Big Anthropocene Announcement in Lille, France, that I naturally attended:
Climate crisis reporting (wildfires and heat waves) starts at 5:48. My 3:20-min. story starts at 9:54.
Of course, this story barely scratches the surface. Totally superficial. But, hey! It's CBC national evening news, and I'll get paid ~ $CAN 400 for this (300 Euros)!! That's two weeks-worth of groceries. Nothing to shake a stick at.
And, it helps defray the ~400 Euros I spent producing it.
Way more satisfying -- Edition 19 of the GPM! A fine one. Today's edition:
- This past Tuesday, July 11, at the 4th International Congress of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, in Lille, France, two members of the Anthropocene Working Group presented their proposal for formalizing the Anthropocene, at the Epoch rank, with a Golden Spike at Crawford Lake, Ontario. The proposal will need to be ratified by the body that commissioned the Working Group -- the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy. If that happens, the proposal will move up to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, then to the supreme arbiter of all matters geological, the International Union of Geological Sciences. At each stage, supermajority approval will be required. The Anthropocene proposal’s future is anything but certain. Colin Waters is the first person you’ll hear at the start of this GPM podcast edition. He’s the chair of the AWG. Francine McCarthy follows. McCarthy is a geologist at Brock University, and the scientific director of Team Crawford. This is technical stuff. Listen closely.
- Last week’s proposed definition of the Anthropocene may come as a surprise to some. Aren’t we already in the Anthropocene? Not according to those who create, edit and rule over Earth’s official time scale -- the International Chronostratigraphic Time Chart. Judging from the public comments of ranking geologists, the AWG’s formal definition of the Anthropocene, announced last week in Lille, France, may wither on the geo-bureaucratic vine. If it does, a whole lot of hardworking geologists will be crestfallen. The AWG's 38 members have been labouring on their proposal for over a decade. Then there are the geologists, geochemists and other specialists associated with the dozen candidate sites originally in the running for the Anthropocene’s Golden Spike. Hundreds of them. Among these, no one has worked harder than the scientific director of the winning candidate, Crawford Lake -- Francine McCarthy. I spoke with Francine the morning after the Big Announcement.
- Francine pays homage to the First Nations people who walked lightly on Crawford Lake shores, centuries ago, leaving the most benign of signature in the lake’s sediments – corn pollen. Today, the lake and its surroundings are owned and operated by Halton Region Conservation Authority, established under the Conservation Authorities Act of the Province of Ontario. But Crawford Lake sits on unceded lands of the Wyandot, Wendat, Attawandaron, Tianantate and Wenro peoples. First Nations leaders granted permission for the lake’s bottom sediments to be cored, on various occasions. Now they want her to remain in peace, and recover. Catherine Tammaro is a seated Spotted Turtle Clan Faith Keeper and artist living in Toronto. Her installations have appeared at exhibitions around the world. Among these, at the House of World Culture, in Berlin, that helped fund the activities of the AWG. I spoke with Catherine Tammaro at her art studio in Cabbagetown, Toronto.
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Two weeks short of August 1, I'm not sure how I'll be able to pay the rent. A couple thousand bucks in donations and five or six $35/week subscriptions would send me around the Moon and back (I have lots of work to do here) -- and a month closer to mid-October when that Big Fat RRSP of mine comes due.
One of those very supportive friends of mine who invested $1000 in the GPM suggested I ask my friends to go here:
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If the GPM gets showcased by the Guardian (as improbable as humanity pulling itself back from the brink), it'll solve all my problems.
For Planet Earth, it'll do squat.
Cheers to all ...
David
Breda, Netherlands
www.greenplanetmonitor.net
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