Category: Rants

  • The Planet Is Burning—But Not Just in the Places You Hear About

    The Planet Is Burning—But Not Just in the Places You Hear About

    California. Australia. Spain.When raging wildfires sweep through these places, they dominate the headlines. We see dramatic footage of orange skies and walls of flames. It’s terrifying—and heartbreaking. But there are other fires. Slower, quieter, less visible. Fires that don’t make the news.Fires that choke the skies of places like Indonesia. Cambodia. Laos. (I also witnessed…

  • ‘The Silent Cry’ Flash Fiction Inspired by “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang

    [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] As the holiday time is getting closer, I’m re-posting this piece, which I wrote a few years back. “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang is a story about the Earthly creatures we fail to hear. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking at times, but overall ends on a positive note with…

  • What Should Be the Goal of Activism for Animals?

    It is vitally important that we set clear, specific and achievable goals, set a time horizon for their implementation, and then unite around these goals and focus our actions on putting them into practice. Change is happening, but not fast enough. We are not united, our attention is too scattered, we aren’t using all strategies,…

  • Podcast: W imieniu tych co glosu nie maja. Weganizm podbija swiat….

    Podcast: W imieniu tych co glosu nie maja. Weganizm podbija swiat….

    Zapraszam do sluchania audycji”W imieniu tych co glosu nie maja. Weganizm podbija swiat” Oczywiscie tytul audycji: ‘Weganizm podbija swiat’   jest nieco przewrotny i mocno na wyrost. Jest to tak zwane ‘wishful thinking’ – myślenie życzeniowe – bo daleko nam jeszcze do tego – ale jestem pelna nadziei, śe to sie zdaży; a mianowicie śe…