Baruch Blum, at The Blogs

Jul 26, 2023, 9:39 AM

Being the hypocritical climate activist that I am, I haven’t entirely divested my own investments from fossil fuels yet – despite the fact that I’ve been to more than one protest outside of Blackrock demanding that they divest from...

Jul 17, 2023, 7:28 AM

My Climate Crisis Diary (Log 1)

In my first two posts for this blog, my approach was that through this blog I would offer a sort of argument for urgent climate action. I figured that I could provide a well-thought-out response to some of the...

Jun 8, 2023, 8:40 PM

Why Climate Activists Are a Bunch of Hypocrites

As a comment to my previous post, “Breaking with Normalcy in Our Climate Emergency”, someone wrote, “When the elites stop flying their private planes, and sell their oceanfront houses, you can start worrying again, but don’t hold your breath.”...

Feb 21, 2023, 9:39 PM

Breaking with Normalcy in Our Climate Emergency

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I’m hoping that writing this blog will relieve me of some of the tension I feel in my day-to-day interactions. That is, the tension between the desire to carry on normal conversations and the nagging knowledge that we are...

About Me

Baruch Blum is a ''rebel'' with Extinction Rebellion NYC (https://www.xrebellion.nyc/), trying to convince people to treat the climate emergency as an emergency. He also teaches Yiddish at The Workers Circle (https://www.circle.org/).