I am a biologist among other credentials, past and present, but, I have been sitting at computers day after day and week after week to bring home the urgency of the climate crisis since 2004. I was an activist longer than that. But, my efforts are volunteer because no one could afford to pay me for what I do.
This climate crisis is real. Stop listening to right wing media that pollutes the airwaves with lies, half-truths, and propaganda. These people are heroes. They are putting their lives on the line to end the climate crisis. Where is everyone else?
Like a real-world version (click here) of The Avengers or Justice League, an international group of unlikely activists, some of them billionaires, have banded together to save our imperiled seas, which, by all accounts, are deteriorating at an increasingly alarming pace. Calling themselves the Philanthropic Ocean Research Vessel Operators—at least until they come up with a catchier name—they’re not waiting for governments to take action. Instead, they have applied their business know-how to studying the seas and devising conservation projects to combat the ravages of climate change, over-fishing and the wholesale dumping of plastic....
