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# Planet B

No one really wants to live on Mars

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- [What We Have To Give Up](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/what-will-we-have-to-give-up/) - I like to think about what we will have to give up. And when I say ‘we’ I mean ‘me’. To live in harmony and balance on earth. What will I have to give up out of my daily life? By 2018, if everyone on earth lived like Americans we would have already used up What will we have to give up to live in balance and harmony on earth?
- [I Wear The Mask](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/i-wear-the-mask/) - I wear the mask so they won't see me The fear I hold inside
- [I need more NOT Dystopia](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/writers-need-to-write-more-not-dystopia/) - Surely we can imagine more futures where we don't all perish by zombies, killer robots or our own hands?
- [Our Individual Choices Are Killing Our Planet](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/our-individual-choices-are-killing-our-planet/) - None of our individual choices will matter as much as the choices we make collectively.
- [Our Policies are Failing Us](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/our-policies-are-failing-us/) - I sat in my privilege today. I used my spare time today to log in to the websites of three different mailers that go to my mailbox to unsubscribe. I spent the time to search for the number and look up ‘xyz mailing unsubscribe’ and completed the process. I did it because I have time
- [We Are Bred For Comfort](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/we-are-bred-for-comfort/) - Modern generations of humans have been bred for comfort, and convenience, including myself. I love hot water running out of my tap, plumbing (working toilets!) inside my own home and, above all else, I think I might actually die if I could not escape the oppressive Florida heat inside of an air-conditioned room. I love
- [Lying In Wait](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/lying-in-wait/) - Cold and wet Barren and scarred Is there anything there? Spring shows Warmth and light With patience and hope New things sprout Burst free from their shell No one can know What stays hidden Waiting to bloom Lying in wait
- [All Coral Reefs Are Dying...Soon](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/all-coral-reefs-are-dying-soon/) - I got out the ocean after snorkeling in Cozumel, turned to the boys and said, “Do you know why mummy is so psychotic about climate change? Because in 10 years, if we don’t fix it, this will all be gone.” For over a decade, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been warning us about
- [Question Everything?](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/question-everything/) - These people that don’t believe anything that mainstream media or ‘#MSM’ tells them. They say to ‘question everything’. Like, everything, everything? Obviously, lots of people recently wanted to question the efficacy of vaccines. It’s a relatively new disease that disrupted the whole world. Lots of people had to get uncomfortable. Couldn’t go for a haircut,
- [Conveniences as a Service](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/conveniences-as-a-service/) - Our water heater stopped working this week. It came with our house, which we have been in for over 17 years so it’s at least as old as that. I looked up online to see how long water heaters are supposed to last and the answer is 8-12 years. So after consulting with our trusted
- [Time to Get Serious](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/time-to-get-serious/) - I was honored to be published in The Invading Sea today. The time to be tentative and believe that someone else is going to fix this is past. This is not inevitable, but we have run out of time to agree that we all share the same goal of a livable climate for our children
- [Fairytales](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/fairytales/) - Inspired by True Events. Our children don't always need 'positivity' and 'happiness' from us. They need us to act. Manatee moans. Tree trembles. Grandma gags in smog. Boy beseeches. Big People yell, “Money! Money!” “But my future?” cries Boy. Big People ignore. Boy travels to Government on a school holiday. “The climate crisis will be
- [Maladaptation](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/maladaptation/) - This week my hometown of Miami was infamously cited as an example of maladaptation in the latest IPCC report. "Attempts to fix the problem by installing new stormwater pumps and raising roads and buildings may have actually made inequality worse by raising property values....It was one of the global report’s key examples of “maladaptation,” when
- [The Green New Deal is not 'Radical' or 'Leftist'](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/the-green-new-deal-is-not-radical-or-leftist/) - It’s the only serious proposal on the table for survival for our children. A majority of Americans are concerned about Climate Change. Exactly how large the majority depends on what age group that human being tends to fall into, which makes sense, and does not make sense. If you think you will be dead before
- [Proud to be 'Woke'](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/proud-to-be-woke/) - Yesterday my son got in the car and called me a ‘woke liberal’. Putting aside the fact that we still don’t know if he seriously believes these things (which would be disappointing but manageable) or is just trolling his mother which is highly likely because he has always been a mischievous sort, it gave us
- [Apologies from a White Climate Advocate](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/apologies-from-a-white-climate-advocate/) - I think we always look at everything through our own lens of experiences. It is a natural human tendency. As empathetic as we believe we are, we can only know about what we know about. Which is why it’s always important to try to seek out more diverse perspectives and learn more. I am currently
- [The Change Equation](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/the-change-equation/) - I worked for a Change Implementation firm for 17 years. Organizations often know what they need to change or achieve to succeed. They may have tried, either on their own, or with help from consulting firms to get the changes or improvements implemented with limited to no success. Because change is hard. Human beings don’t
- [Raising White Men](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/raising-white-men/) - I attended a small webinar about a year ago. I cannot even remember what it was about but it was around climate action so I guess it’s all the same thing. We know it’s an emergency but how do we get legislatures to act? The only thing that stayed with me from that call was
- [Are you a Climate Denier?](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/are-you-a-climate-denier/) - Am I? They say it’s an ‘emergency’. All the best climate scientists, 95% of them. The proper scientists say we only have 6-8 more years to change our ways and pull back from the brink. They say this is going to happen probably by 2030, possibly before your next big birthday celebration or your retirement.
- [The Elephant](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/the-elephant/) - ...in the Climate Change room; Let’s talk about it. The fact that hundreds of thousands of people, human beings, go to work every day to do what we now call ‘dirty jobs’ that are destroying our planet. They do not (most of them) wake up every day and say ‘hmm, let me see how much
- [Stop. Buying. New. Stuff](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/stop-buying-new-stuff/) - That’s it. That is what we, the average person, can do to most impact climate change. Stop buying new things. Don’t buy a new car (even if it’s electric), a new shirt, a new dress, a new phone, a new power tool, a new toy for your child. That is what you can do. And
- [Cognitive Dissonance](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/cognitive-dissonance/) - There is societal pressure to always be or seem, busy. We put value on doing things but, I wonder, might not doing things generate more long term value for our planet? I’ve spent my whole life doing a whole lot of things. I’ve been fortunate to benefit financially from travelling around the world doing lots
- [Beach Clean Up](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/beach-clean-up/) - First time today doing an organized beach clean up. I think beach cleanups are inefficient. We should not be creating these types of packaging materials in the first place. We should not be relying on private citizens, and especially not volunteering teenagers, to clean up the poor packaging choices of manufacturers. Plastic packaging is not
- [The Contest](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/the-contest/) - I was honored to receive an 'honorable mention' for 'meaningful message' in Susanna Leonard Hill's 2021 fun Holiday Writing Contest (about a Holiday Contest). The talent of my fellow writers in the community in breathtaking. By Amanda Sherlock Word Count: 240It’s holiday time again. My friends at school are excited. “I’ve asked for a remote-control
- [Writing a book is like raising a child](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/writing-a-book-is-like-raising-a-child/) - I've been thinking that writing a book, particularly one with many thousands of words, is like giving birth and raising a child. First, you have to rip that baby out of you with many hours of sweat and tears. Then, the hard work begins. You have to guide that baby, as unique and beautiful and
- [Fall Frenzy Writing Contest Submission](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/fall-frenzy-writing-contest-submission/) - Photo Credit: Halloween, Danielle Rae Peter Pumpkin By: Amanda Sherlock Word Count = 198 “We have this same decoration again?” I kick the stand.“Stop it Henry. You know how hard I worked to refurbish Peter Pumpkin.”“But look at Matt’s new decorations.”Mom glances at our neighbor’s driveway. The corners of her lips turn down.“Come on inside.
- [My Wishcycling Conundrum](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/wishcycling/) - Like many people, I try. I try to recycle. I don't want to throw things in a landfill so I place everything that is allowed in my single stream recycling bin once every two weeks. Recently I found out that only 14% of our trash is recycled in my county and that we have a

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- [About](https://amandasherlockwrites.com/about/) - My unpublished manuscripts are children's fiction with Sustainability themes Custodians of Earth Chapter Book Series:Nine-year-old Sarah, deeply troubled by global warming, refuses to stand idly by. She time travels into the next millennium bringing back sustainable ideas she knows will improve our world. After her increasingly absurd attempts to get the people around her to
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