Mary Annaïse Heglar
Climate justice essayist. Narrative change agent. Publications Director w/ @NRDC. Black & Green every day. She/her. BX via MS via AL. Opinions+ideas=mine.
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Longreads Best of 2019: Science and Nature
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in science and nature.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
So thrilled to be in this company highlighting the best nature and climate writing of the year—and to be highlighted myself! (Thank you, @emilyraboteau!) There’s some great climate stories in here!
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Our Planet May Be Barreling Toward a Tipping Point
A thawing Antarctica, a transforming Amazon, and other devastating changes may be more likely than scientists previously believed.
Don't 'demonise and ostracise' us in climate change debate, says BP
Activists, who posed as living statues and doused themselves in oil, say the British Museum should be ashamed of its links to BP.
Her Message About Climate Change: It’s Not Too Late
Kate Marvel is committed to spreading the word about climate science. Her TED Talk on the subject drew more than a million viewers.
New York, NY - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Join us for our final NYC show of the year, with stories about getting left out in the cold.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
If you’re in NYC on December 2, come see me and @DrKateMarvel and @manigarcianyc and others at Story Collider. Especially if you want to hear me talk more about my granddaddy and Katrina
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Does Greta Thunberg’s Lifestyle Equal Climate Denial? One Climate Scientist Seems To Suggest So.
The climate debate has taken a nasty turn. It is no longer a shouting match between climate affirmers and climate deniers. Now the finger-wagging is taking place among climate affirmers on the subject of personal responsibility for combating...
DRILLED: Mary Annaïse Heglar on Crafting & Critiquing Climate Narratives on Apple Podcasts
Show DRILLED, Ep Mary Annaïse Heglar on Crafting & Critiquing Climate Narratives - Nov 12, 2019
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
Thank you to @amywestervelt and #Drilled for giving me the space to vent about why I hate being compared to white male writers, why I publish in medium, and why I troll crude cartels on twitter.
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My Son Was Born Into Climate Chaos, While His New Home State Burned
My son was born last week, right before two historic wildfires hit California—his new home state—and burned whole cities to the ground.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
@amywestervelt Huge thank you to my colleague and pal @Borabeet for finding this elusive, gorgeous essay! From @bcmerchant exactly a year ago today. Please read it!
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There Goes the Neighborhood on Apple Podcasts
Society & Culture · 2019
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
Not sure if y’all know about this but “There Goes the Neighborhood” with @kai_wright from @WNYC is doing a whole season on climate gentrification and it’s gooooddddd
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If We Must Die by Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
The climate movement could use some of the energy. Some of that Claude McKay “If We Must Die” energy. That “Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back” energy
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Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion
Artist Dread Scott organized the 26-mile trek to New Orleans as a tribute to the men and women who protested their enslavement in the German Coast Uprising of 1811 by re-imagining a different outcome.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“More than 200 years ago, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a long march toward the city. Their goal: to free every slave they found and then seize the Crescent City.”
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Climate change is about how we treat each other
Our weather has changed so rapidly that we now stand on the brink of collapse. But simply speaking about the impending apocalypse will do nothing to change it. We need to reimagine human relationships.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“But climate change is not a war, it is genocide. It is domination. It is extinction...the most recent manifestation of how powerful men throughout history have sought to steal from the less powerful, and dismiss them as merely inconvenient.“ @EricHolthaus
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Lessons in Survival
My grandmother Mabel Raboteau fled the coastal town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and the terror of Jim Crow along the northern pathway of the Great Migration, to Michigan, in order to save her life and the lives of her children. The youngest of...
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“To me, resilience looks like my cousin Tracy and her husband, Charles, who, after almost drowning while praying to God in an attic with their children perceived that the helicopters swirling overhead weren’t there to save them.” @emilyraboteau
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Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Climate Change
The movement tasked with helping save the earth is as divisive as anything else. Addressing our differences is the only way to create discourse—and…
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“We need to better understand how to avoid privilege as a distractor and delay to climate solutions for all of us....The key is to have open conversations with the intent to understand each other as we seek solutions.” @HeatherMcTeer in @damemagazine
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Telling Stories to Battle Climate Change, With a Little Humor Thrown In
The women who make the podcast “Mothers of Invention” stand apart in the field of climate communication.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“I realized with all that has separated us from each other, climate justice is the great unifier.” Read about the women behind @MothersInvent
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Delhi’s toxic politicians must be held to account for this deadly pollution | Aruna Chandrasekhar
A unique political deadlock in the capital is creating a destructive inertia, says Aruna Chandrasekhar, an independent journalist from India
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“What is it like to live and love in a city that shoves two packs of cigarettes down your throat every day without your consent? How did Delhi get here?” —@aruna_sekhar
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DRILLED: Mary Annaïse Heglar, Adam McKay, and David Wallace Wells on Climate Storytelling on Apple Podcasts
Show DRILLED, Ep Mary Annaïse Heglar, Adam McKay, and David Wallace Wells on Climate Storytelling - Nov 4, 2019
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
Stop what you’re doing and listen to this #drilled episode with @amywestervelt, @annajanejoyner, @dwallacewells and myself about all the things wrong w/climate storytelling. (Apologies to anyone who has ever asked what gives me hope...)
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Climate Darwinism Makes Disabled People Expendable
With power shut-offs taking lives and articles blaming air pollution on inhalers, disabled people are learning just how expendable non-disabled people see them.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
“The disability community is living in a dystopian present where conserving the planet is in direct competition w/ the value of their lives. In the battle of the survival of the fittest, disabled people will always lose.”—@Imani_Barbarin
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After the Storm
How Hurricane Katrina and the murder of Emmett Till shaped one woman’s commitment to climate justice
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
I wrote about remembering Katrina, which meant I had to write about my grandfather and I had to write about Emmett Till. This was different, and special. And I’m so grateful to @ingredient_x for pushing me.
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