J. Matt — ZUMA Press, SEJ, NPPA. Doc photo & ftr reporter complaints at tinyshocks dot com Ghost Twitter Acct. Moved: @tinyshocks.bsky.social @JMatt@journa.host
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Procrastination, techno optimism, finance, and the American character — a recipe for addressing global warming? Thanks to @_redcanaryco, as ever!
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Another one about fire, and its consequences. Read it here: placesjournal.org/article/pa…
Twitter diligence done!
But I guess I didn’t do my diligence here: play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_4…
Sorry @prx, this is as important as the Paradise story above, a must-listen just as that’s a must-read.
So I have a website again, with a blog (no promises there). tinyshocks.com Check it out!
And Happy New Year—seems like it could be a long one.
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Geographies of Hubris and Grief redcanarycollective.org/maga…
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"Traveling against the tide of a mass exodus is a surreal experience and not one I can recommend, even as I know I will inevitably do so again, as I have done before. Our expansive societal failure guarantees this cycle repeats.
A new archetype of experience — the previously improbable disaster — was taking shape in the smoldering ruins. The word I see and hear constantly, and which comes merely close to a satisfactory description of my state in the face of all this is grief. Grief. Grief. Grief.
Voiced as a mantra, the word comes closer to accepting the weight placed on it, but it still fails its burden. No single word can encapsulate the anguish, heartbreak, pain and fury that follows fires like these."
Read more as veteran reporter J. Matt (@tinyshocks) searches for a new lexicon to guide our approach to global warming.
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Hello void!
Our language is failing us in the global warming era, Pyrocene, whatever you want to call it.
Red Canary Magazine got behind me for a lot of words on this, so it can’t be just me that feels this way... share this if you can:
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See, it says at the top of my X-twit thingy, "Bad at Twitter." This is here late; it is still pertinent. I am 100% positive of that even as I haven't read it since I filed my edits. Still too close. I'll be back in Paradise in November...we're doing great. vox.com/climate/2023/8/19/23…
Yeah, I just started using Notes on Substack, Substack at all for that matter. Social media game upped! Check it out?
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Many thanks to J. Matt (@tinyshocks) for taking over today on #SEJSpotlight! Check out their work: sej.org/sejspotlight-j-matt-…. Subscribe to @EJTodayNews: sej.org/headlines/list. Join SEJ: sej.org/how-to-join-sej.
This is J. Matt, photog, print journalist, & SEJ member saying goodbye! Thanks SEJ for allowing me to share what I'm up to. If you are an environmental journalist submit an app to join! And drop me a line to say hello! Aloha! -@tinyshocks #SEJSpotlight
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Aloha! J. Matt, photog, print journalist, & SEJ member taking over! SEJ is a reliable part of my keeping tabs on environmental reporting & helps me keep up on the latest enviro news so my own reporting is accurate. Stick around to see what I'm up to! -@tinyshocks #SEJSpotlight
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Not all of the team's work is killing plants—unusual specimens like this large native mamake have their coordinates logged to record notable native plants growing on O‘ahu.
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Some larger specimens of miconia can't be uprooted by hand and must be treated carefully with herbicide like this five meter plant.
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Reporting on @OahuISC hunting miconia, an invasive weed threatening Oahu's sole-source aquifer. The team works in untracked, nearly impassable terrain to locate and uproot miconia, known as the "green cancer of the Pacific" for its destructive spread. -@tinyshocks #SEJSpotlight
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Hawaii youth climate activists speak in front of the state DOT building on behalf of the youth plaintiffs suing the DOT.
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A plaintiff in the Youth v. Hawaii DOT suit speaks to press after the first hearing in the trial. The teens are alleging DOT favors carbon- based transportation policies in the face of widespread understanding of the dangers of such policy in the era of global warming.
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You can read more about this lawsuit in this feature story by @Isabella_Kam hakaimagazine.com/features/c…
I'm reporting on the suit filed by @youthgov & @Earthjustice on behalf of 14 youth suing the HI DOT for violating their rights to a sustaining, healthy environment. This will be the 2nd such suit to go to trial after Held v. Montana, beginning 06/12. -@tinyshocks #SEJSpotlight
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An elderly visitor views what had once been a beach at the Outrigger Hotel in Waikiki. The hotel beach, once deep enough to land large catamarans which sailed tourists along the coast of Waikiki is now largely gone.
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This buttressing of rebar and concrete by homeowner Joshua VanEmmerick was unpermitted and illegal. Faced with a $15k/day fine, VanEmmerick removed the reinforcement within the 30 day period allotted him. Huge surf breaks at Sunset beach, protecting homes is likely impossible.
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Oah‘u faces serious threat to coastal property and infrastructure. Settling the issue is complex—beaches legally part of the public commons, private property rights, aged infrastructure, economic wellbeing—the fights are shaping up and I'm following it. -@tinyshocks #SEJSpotlight
