Mother Earth vs. capitalism, private property & rapture fundamentalists
The great insight from the last century or so: imperial powers profit more from exploiting natural resources than bashing foreign heads.
Green New Deal “climate kids” should hijack the impeachment conversation
"If Democrats are unwilling to do the right thing and assist at that suicide, today’s real grownups—you climate kids—must embarrass them into doing so."
The year of the Green New Deal
Offering hope for a better future over the rage in vogue on the right, motivating young people to vote and getting more citizens to organize in their communities is how we will win.
‘The polluter should pay:’ Pennsylvania bill aims to ease PFAS-related drinking water charges
Proposed legislation would use funds from development on contaminated sites to help offset costs of cleaning tainted drinking water.
Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ threatens to reach the size of Massachusetts
"Low oxygen conditions started to appear 50 years ago when agricultural practices intensified in the Midwest."
Our post-carbon future depends on electric vehicles – our Congress controls their economic lifeline
The fossil fuel industry is working hard to eliminate a tax credit that reduces emissions and creates jobs.
US annually uses 388 million pounds of potentially fatal pesticides banned in the EU,...
Eighty-five pesticides currently in use across the country have been banned or are in the process of being phased out in the three nations, in large part due to their harmful impact on human health or the environment.
‘Frightening:’ Plant extinction is occurring 500 times faster than before human intervention
"Plant extinction is bad news for all species."
‘We are facing an existential crisis:’ Gov. Inslee slams DNC for refusing to hold...
“This is our last chance to defeat climate change. We will not have another chance after the next administration. We will either act now, or it will be cataclysm.”
Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill banning whale and dolphin captivity
"Today is a really good day for animals in Canada."