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Southern Cultures
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ISSN (Print) 1068-8218 - ISSN (Online) 1534-1488
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Making the Invisible Visible: For a Climate Future
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  Abstract: Climate change is rapidly transforming our world in ways both visible and invisible. Greenhouse gas pollution—invisible to the human eye—is causing climate change, with widespread impacts to which we now bear witness. Rising temperatures have caused the loss of more than 28 trillion tons of Earth's ice between 1994 and 2017, roughly the volume of water in Lake Superior, and triggered oceanic thermal expansion, accelerating sea level rise. Changing precipitation patterns have caused and exacerbated extreme droughts and flooding in many of the world's regions, leading to an increase in food insecurity, hunger, and famine. Record-breaking heat waves have wracked cities across the globe, subjecting 125 million people ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00
Snapshot
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  Abstract: as a child growing up in the Tennessee River Valley, I didn't know, or fully understand, that the entire state of Alabama is a watershed. From the streams and creeks that flow to the Tennessee River in north Alabama to the river basins that meet the Gulf of Mexico, aquifers, creeks, rivers, and underground lakes populate and crisscross the state.The Tennessee River is the fifth largest watershed in the United States and is considered one of the most diverse aquatic ecosystems in the world. It was also the playground of my childhood. I grew up camping every weekend on a small lot as far north and as west as you can go and still be in the state of Alabama, at a confluence where Bumpass and Second Creeks meet the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00
"Climate Change Is an Everything Issue"
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  Abstract: Katharine hayhoe is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy. She is also Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Public Administration program of the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University.Hayhoe has published over 125 peer-reviewed abstracts and publications and coauthored Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections: From Global Change to Local Impacts (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and served as lead author on key reports for the US Global Change Research Program and the National Academy of Sciences, including the Second, Third, and Fourth US National Climate Assessments. Her ted talk, The Most Important ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00
Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America's Urgent Call for Climate
Solutions (An Excerpt)
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  Abstract: While visiting sarasota, florida, my husband agreed to join me in doing something I absolutely love and completely unrelated to work—foot massages. We found a quaint little spot in a quiet retirement community. It wasn't overly glamourous—average size homes with small, neat yards, and the random golf cart illegally riding along the city street. With a few minutes to spare, we saw a shopping plaza with a health food–based grocery store and decided to stop in. It took less than two minutes for us to realize we were not in a regular store."Babe! You see this'" I tried to quietly whisper my shock as we walked through the fresh vegetable section. He smirked, knowing full well where I was about to go. "What'd you expect' ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00
Confessions of a Climate Scientist
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  Abstract: I misspent my youth wandering the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, spending as much time as I could on long camping trips into the backwoods. It was there that I found where my internal compass pointed, namely, toward a longing to understand how the earth and its environment worked, why and how it seemed to seamlessly function amid a bewildering array of interacting parts.That desire to study the earth took me through a college degree in chemistry and a graduate degree in geochemistry. As I was finishing my doctorate, I made a conscious decision to focus my research career on climate change and greenhouse gases. Thinking that it was good to tackle a subject that had clear societal impact ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00
The Inner Banks: A Drive Home
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  Abstract: I have lived on a small farm in southern Vermont for the last thirteen years. One year, it simply did not snow, and the low-grade environmental anxiety I'd been swallowing blossomed into something ferocious, blocking my imaginative impulse. I felt as though I couldn't write fiction anymore. I poured my energy into becoming an environmental essayist and climate journalist and spent the last six years writing pieces for The Guardian. Even though my desire to write fiction has returned, environmental writing is the work that matters most to me.One year, it simply did not snow, and the low-grade environmental anxiety I'd been swallowing blossomed into something ferocious, blocking my imaginative impulse.Once, on ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00
Back Porch
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  Abstract: This extraordinary Snapshot: Climate issue marks the beginning of a year and more of contemplation—and celebration—of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Southern Cultures and the Center for the Study of the American South in 1993. The issue's focus on the climate crisis and how southern places and communities are experiencing and reacting to the daily impacts of climate change speaks also to the fifty-plus-year founding of the modern environmental movement in the United States and the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970. I was thirteen years old that spring and remember the student demonstrations, teach-ins, and images of smog-shrouded cities and sewage-filled rivers. In the Arkansas Delta, we were exposed to ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-05:00