Season 1 Finale: Rum O'Clock

It's the S1 finale y'all! Mary and Amy wrap up the season with a look at the ever-evolving climate-COVID-19 story, coverage of climate for climate's sake, and pieces that provide inspiration to keep fighting on climate. Plus some rum-fueled rants and dad jokes, of course.
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Reading List:
The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus crisis —Patrick Sharkey, Vox https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21216216/coronavirus-social-distancing-texas-unacast-climate-change
Putin's Long War Against American Science — William J. Broad, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinformation-health-coronavirus.html
The Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation —Amy Westervelt, Drilled News https://drillednews.substack.com/p/the-reason-covid-19-and-climate-seem
‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans—Olivia Carville, Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/-we-needed-to-go-rich-americans-activate-pandemic-escape-plans
Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming —Rhiana Gunn Wright, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/sunday/climate-change-covid-economy.html 
Upend the political power of carbon polluters — Leah Stokes, The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/opinion/upend-political-power-carbon-polluters/
 The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-the-green-new-deal-is-cheap-actually-965794/
What the 'Humans Are the Virus' Meme Gets So Wrong—Brian Kahn, Earther https://earther.gizmodo.com/what-the-humans-are-the-virus-meme-gets-so-wrong-1842934676
I Am a Mad Scientist—Kate Marvel, Drilled News https://www.drillednews.com/post/i-am-a-mad-scientist 
People Aren’t Bad for the Planet—Capitalism Is—Izzie Ramirez, Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/world-on-fire/ecofascist-messaging-is-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic 
I’m pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic, and I’m terrified—Anica Brown, Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/opinion/im-pregnant-im-terrified/
In a shrinking world, what will we pass on to our children?—Mary Heglar, The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/opinion/essay-shrinking-world-what-will-we-pass-our-children/ 
The Story of Our Time—Kyle Pope, Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/story-of-our-time.php
Rising Tides, Troubled Waters: The Future of Our Ocean—Jeff Godell, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/oceans-and-climate-change-2020-report-jeff-goodell-967980/
Computer-aided Destruction— Maddie Stone, Drilled News https://www.drillednews.com/post/computer-aided-destruction 
We Can't Tackle Climate Change Without You—Mary Annaïse Heglar, Wired https://www.wired.com/story/what-you-can-do-solve-climate-change/
Zero Hour: There’s No Stopping Climate Change, But How Bad It Gets Is Still Up To Us—Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jeff-goodell-no-stopping-climate-change-966026/
What's It Going to Take? — Ijeoma Oluo, Medium https://link.medium.com/n2RW6AN485
The Really Big One—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one