Writing | sucummings

Today's score: bad news-9. Good news-1.

Patagonia's founder gave the business and its profits to fight climate change.

Weapons of choice

Now Ruth is gone and ruthlessness remains. How will we fight for our right to an abortion?

Nine footprints

“If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world– behind China and the US.” Motivated by...

The Chemistry Experiment

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahumanarchitecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”...

A Father’s Arms

I knew the fear-begotten arms race and I grew up together. Now all these years later, my father is holding an exploding bombshell out to me.

To bear witness

Published in Ground Zero, October 2021. “We keep threatening to unleash these bombs... Most of us have forgotten what we're capable of."

Conversation: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Setsuko Thurlow

A “conversation”: J. Robert Oppenheimer's report on nuclear effects and Setsuko Thurlow’s Nobel Peace Prize speech on abolishing nukes

It starts with me

How I and the other 7 billion of us on the planet now can prevent the worst effects of climate change.

How to just do it

I began musing here about growing older with an untested sense of optimism. I have a fresh appreciation for how hard that is.

Black Swan

March 11, 2011: Fukushima nuclear plant systems detected an earthquake. The reactors automatically shut down and emergency diesel...